Part 2, Chapter 19: Lying to Mr. Emerson

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‌​‌​​​‌‌⁠The Miss Alans were found in their beloved temperance hotel near Bloomsbury—a clean, airless establishment much patronized by provincial England. They always perched there before crossing the great seas, and for a week or two would fidget gently over clothes, guide-books, mackintosh squares, digestive bread, and other Continental necessaries. That there are shops abroad, even in Athens, never occu