Had a chuckle at this excerpt: "The guests feel struck with awe in that dining-room, and solemnly bolt their food as quickly as they can. You hear less noise i

Had a chuckle at this excerpt: "The guests feel struck with awe in that dining-room, and solemnly bolt their food as quickly as they can. You hear less noise in an American hotel dining-room containing five hundred people, than you do at a French table d’hôte accommodating fifty people, at a German one containing a dozen guests, or at a table where two Italians are dining tête-à-tête." The author clearly has a ranking of how much each nationality speaks while eating :)