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CHAPTER 32—A Nation in a Hurry
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In early days of steam navigation on the Mississippi, the river captains, it is said, had the playful habit, when pressed for time or enjoying a “spurt” with a rival, of running their engines with a darky seated on the safety-valve.
One’s first home impression after a season of lazy Continental1 travelling and visiting in somnolent2 English country houses, is that an emblematical3 Ethiopian should be quartered on our national arms.
Zola tells us in Nouvelle Campagne that his vivid impressions are all received during the first twenty-four hours in a new surrounding,—the mind, like a photographic film, quickly losing its sensibility.
This fleeting4 receptiveness makes returning Americans painfully conscious of nerves in the home atmosphere, and the headlong pace at which our compatriots are living.
The habit of laying such faults to the climate is but a poor excuse. Our grandparents and their parents lived peaceful lives beneath these same skies, undisturbed by the morbid5 influences that are supposed to key us to such a painful concert pitch.
There was an Indian summer languor6 in the air as we steamed up the bay last October, that apparently7 invited repose8; yet no sooner had we set foot on our native dock, and taken one good whiff of home air, than all our acquired calm disappeared. People who ten days before would have sat (at a journey’s end) contentedly9 in a waiting-room, while their luggage was being sorted by leisurely
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crackers
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mastication
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traction
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twitch
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