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The young man was moderate in his sarcasm, and attempted to speak of national issues, but the crowd had small relish for that sort of thing. The german was still "on" at the hotel when we ascended to our chamber, satisfied that Asheville was a lively town.
But the scenery is so charming and noble, the drives are so varied, the roads so unusually passable for a Southern country, and the facilities for excursions so good, that Asheville is a favorite resort.
There are certain excursions that the sojourner at Asheville must make.
Again, a friend of mine in Philadelphia sent a telegram to me one afternoon about a meeting in the evening; it reached me in Germantown, at a distance of about five miles, at 8 o'clock the following morning. My train reached Asheville about 5 or 6 P.M. I went to the baggage-master, but found he had not received my wire. While I was talking to him, one of the train-men entered and handed it to him.
"Hardly it's just a hustling mountain town of about twenty-five thousand people." "Lot o' swells from around New York live down there, they tell me." "Yes, the Vanderbilts have a beautiful castle just outside." "Some mountains near Asheville?" "Hundreds of square miles." "Mountains in every direction?"
Presently she surprised Randolph with a positive frown. She had made a quick, darting return to Hortense. "I shall send her away," she said aloud. The girl might join her studio friend, who had stopped at Asheville on her way North, and stay with her for a few weeks. Yes, Hortense might go and meet the spring or even the summer, if that must be.
"Either route you see," she said softly, "leads to Salisbury, where you strike the foothills of the mountains. It's about two hundred miles from there to Asheville and `The Land of the Sky." For two hours she answered his eager, boyish questions about the country and its people, his eyes wide with admiration at her knowledge.
It is true that summer tourists flock to Asheville and Toxaway, Linville and Highlands, passing their time at modern hotels and motoring along a few macadamed roads, but what do they see of the billowy wilderness that conceals most of the native homes? Glimpses from afar. What do they learn of the real mountaineer? Hearsay.
>From Burnsville the next point in our route was Asheville, the most considerable city in western North Carolina, a resort of fashion, and the capital of Buncombe County. It is distant some forty to forty- five miles, too long a journey for one day over such roads.
They've had two nurses from Asheville all the time, you know. Miss Sydney's wonderful. There's such a lot to do about a house when there's a serious illness, even for people who aren't doing the actual nursing." "Ah s'pose so. Wouldn' hit be nice, jus' like a story, 'f they'd fall in love with each other Mr. Baron 'n Miss Sydney?"
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