...la?’ He shows me the paper. It is an old scrap of print, the picture of an American patent door-spring, with directions: ‘Fasten the spring either end... ...ten the spring either end up. Wind it up. Never unwind.’ It is laconic and American. The signore watches me anx- iously, waiting, holding his chin. He... ...-respectable cafe. These young men are all free-think- ers, great dancers, singers, players of the guitar. They are im- moral and slightly cynical. Th... ...and thin and somewhat German-looking, wearing 99 Twilight in Italy shabby American clothes and a very high double collar and a small American crush h...

... He thanked heaven to his wife often, that he had nothing to do with North American or South American mines and pastures or with South Africa and, gol... ...and in- structed Germans not deviously march; whom acute and ad- venturous Americans, with half a cock of the eye in passing, compassionately outstrip... ...nt of commercial matters: rivalries of Banks; Foreign and Municipal Loans, American Rails, and Argen- tine; new Companies of wholesome appearance or s... ... you. But you are hungry? Y ou have been singing twice: three times! Opera singers, they say, eat hot suppers; they drink stout. And I never heard you... ...hrilled her and set her guessing. ‘A taste of his favourite Cayenne lolly- pop, Colney; it fetches the tear he loves to shed, or it gives him digestiv...