twenty-franc-per-day

Updated: May 9, 2025

"Some people think he did," answered Britt, dryly. "So they're with Simeon. He lives gorgeously, I'm told." "About like a lone American guest in a twenty-franc-per-day hotel in Paris. Why, yes, they're very comfortable there all but the girl. She's discontented and unhappy, if I'm any judge, and is besieged day and night by the mourning faithful, not to speak of certain amorous males."

Hamlin Garland - The Tyranny of the Dark