An American girl in London . itishGovernment does not provide cuspidores for its legislators, whichstruck me as reflecting very favourably upon the legislative senseof propriety here, especially as there seemed to be no obviousdemand for such a thing. Bless you, my dear young lady, you mustnt go in there!exclaimed Lord Mafferton at the door of the House, as I steppedin to take a perfectly inoffensive look at it. Out with youquick, or theyll have you off to the Tower before you can sayGeorge Washington ! But why ? I asked, quite breathless with my sudden exit. Young people should never ask why?
An American girl in London . itishGovernment does not provide cuspidores for its legislators, whichstruck me as reflecting very favourably upon the legislative senseof propriety here, especially as there seemed to be no obviousdemand for such a thing. Bless you, my dear young lady, you mustnt go in there!exclaimed Lord Mafferton at the door of the House, as I steppedin to take a perfectly inoffensive look at it. Out with youquick, or theyll have you off to the Tower before you can sayGeorge Washington ! But why ? I asked, quite breathless with my sudden exit. Young people should never ask why? said LordMafferton, serio-comically. Thank your American stars thatSalisbury or any of those fellows were not about! This peer evidently thought I was very, very young—abouttwelve; but I have noticed since that not only peers, but all 126 AN AMERICAN GIRL IN LONDON agreeable old gentlemen in England, have a habit of dating youback in this way. It is a kindly, well-meant attitude, but itleaves you without very much to DISARRANGES MY FEATURES FOR LIFE AN AMERICAN GIRL IN LONDON in I thought feminine privileges in your House of Commons verylimited indeed then, but considerably more so when I attended asitting with Lady Torquilin a week later, and disarranged myfeatures for life trying to look through the diamonds of the irongrating with which Parliament tries to screen itself from thecriticism of its lady relations. Lord Mafferton came up thatday with us. and explained that the grating was to prevent theladies from throwing themselves at the heads of the unmarriedmembers—a singular precaution. The only other reason I couldhear why it should not be taken down was that nobody had doneit since it was put up—a remarkably British reason, and calcu-lated, as most things seem to be in this country, to last. And I saw your Prince that afternoon. He came into thePeers Gallery in a light overcoat, and sat down with two orthree friends to watch his people governing their country
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