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    Last Days in a Dutch Hotel (from Literature and Life)
    Last Days in a Dutch Hotel (from Literature and Life)
    Last Days in a Dutch Hotel (from Literature and Life)
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    Last Days in a Dutch Hotel (from Literature and Life)

    By William Dean Howells

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
    Last Days in a Dutch Hotel (from Literature and Life)
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    William Dean Howells

    William Dean Howells was a realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings.

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      Last Days in a Dutch Hotel (from Literature and Life) - William Dean Howells

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      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Last Days in a Dutch Hotel From Literature and Life

      Author: William Dean Howells

      Release Date: October 22, 2004 [EBook #3385]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LAST DAYS IN A DUTCH HOTEL ***

      Produced by David Widger

      LITERATURE AND LIFE—Last Days in a Dutch Hotel

      by William Dean Howells

      LAST DAYS IN A DUTCH HOTEL

      (1897)

      When we said that we were going to Scheveningen, in the middle of September, the portier of the hotel at The Hague was sure we should be very cold, perhaps because we had suffered so much in his house already; and he was right, for the wind blew with a Dutch tenacity of purpose for a whole week, so that the guests thinly peopling the vast hostelry seemed to rustle through its chilly halls and corridors like so many autumn leaves. We were but a poor hundred at most where five hundred would not have been a crowd; and, when we sat down at the long tables d'hote in the great dining-room, we had to warm our hands with our plates before we could hold our spoons. From time to time the weather varied, as it does in Europe (American weather is of an exemplary constancy in comparison), and three or four times a day it rained, and three or four times it cleared; but through all the wind blew cold and colder. We were promised, however, that the hotel would not close till October, and we made shift, with a warm chimney in one room and three gas-burners in another, if not to keep warm quite, yet certainly to get used to the cold.

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      In the mean time the sea-bathing went resolutely on with all its forms. Every morning the bathing machines were drawn down to the beach from the esplanade, where they were secured against the gale every night; and every day a half-dozen hardy invalids

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