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Title: Around and about South America
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Vincent, Frank, 1848- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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number of staircases, as with us, though of course there muststill be some delay in the movements of the servants. Pict-ures, ornaments, and souvenirs of travel are distributedthroughout the rooms. The public parlors are a little morelavishly furnished than with us, though one will never findan outrage against what is understood as good taste. Richvelvet carpets cover the floors. The chandeliers are of sil-ver and crystal, valuable paintings adorn the walls, cabinetsof curiosities occupy the corners, huge albums load the tables.A piano of the best make, and generally from New York,is always present, as are guitars and mandolins. The dinner-table you will find profusely supplied with silver and cut-glass, and weighted with game, vegetables, fruits of uniquecharacter, and wines of vintages strange to the foreigner,who nevertheless will be anxious to cultivate their acquaint-ance. House-rent in Lima is very high, and so also is thecost of furnishing a house in modern style, since so many
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A Lima Belle. GLIMPSES OF THE PERUVIANS. 67 things have to be imported from distant countries. Serv-ants, however, are good and cheap ; they always do the mar-keting. Coffee is generally taken on rising, at eight; break-fast is at eleven, and dinner at seven. The business hours ofthe gentlemen are thus largely confined to the afternoon, andthey return home sufficiently early to get thoroughly rested,dress for dinner, and of course take a glass of bitters andsmoke a cigarette. You will discover that the adults of thefamily—the rising generation—have been educated in eitherNew York or Paris, and have traveled extensively in boththe United States and Europe, if not also in India and China,and possibly around the world. They will be very likely tospeak English and French in addition to their vernacular.The ladies you will find dressed richly and tastefully, in Eu-ropean fashion, if not in the latest of French styles. Theywill receive you with a quiet and graceful dignity, combinedwith

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