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"Well," said Ora, when she and Ida had returned to the hotel to dress for dinner, "did you have a queer feeling when you were prowling through those dim old rooms, furnished three or four hundred years ago, and the scene of all sorts of romance and tragedy?"
"I had a queer feeling all right. Had visions of rheumatism, sciatica, pneumonia, and a red nose for a week. I suppose those wonderful velvet gowns they wore -- in pictures, anyhow -- were padded inside, and they slept in them; didn't take them off all winter. If I lived in one of those palaces today I'd surely lose all my good American habits."