Margaret Addison's description of her Paris hotel:
Cook's Exposition Hotel was an exposition in itself. The architecture was on the principle of most rooms out of smallest space, and on smallest expense. There were sections A, B, C, D, E & F; each had its own entrance, and if you were in F, as we were, you had to travel down a street in the burning sun till you reached the entrance where began the stairs. This ascended three sides of a square, and we were six flights up! . . .
When I came to climb so many stairs, I asked if there were not an elevator. The porter said oui, oui, and led me to a small room with W.C. over it. Imagine my feelings. No--not a lift, or elevatoire, or ascenseur, but every day six flights up and the same down.
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