half-hospitable

Updated: May 20, 2025

Ah! there is but one class of folks whose faith in spirits nothing can shake the guilty, the bloody-handed. He came to a perturbed rest at the huge, half-hospitable Hospice, to the enthusiasm of the postilions. "Will the gentleman have a saddle-horse?" "A chariot?" "A cabriolet?" "Ten francs to Andermatt!" "Thirty francs to Fluelen!"

George Alfred Townsend - Bohemian Days: Three American Tales