The young nobleman nodded.
“You will find the Americans a very hospitable people.”
“I have always heard so.”
“And, though they cannot entertain you in your own style, they will do their best to please you.”
Another nod of his lordship.
“Your lordship must not forget that we are a young country. When we shall be as old as England, we shall perhaps do better.”
“I don’t doubt it.”
“Your lordship is going to put up at the Astor House?”
“I do not know yet.”
“Oh! your lordship must put up at the Astor House; it’s the only decent public house in New York. I shall myself put up there; and if your lordship will do me the honour——”