Andorra, the hidden republic; by Leary Lewis Gaston

Author:Leary, Lewis Gaston. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New York, McBride, Nast & company
Published: 1912-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

ANDORRA, THE HIDDEN REPUBLIC

"Bon dia/ J When I asked for information, it was promptly and cheerfully given. But the Andorran never began the conversation, and he always stopped talking the minute I did.

Over in southern France every chance acquaintance was bubbling over with curious inquiries as to why we were traveling so far, and how much it cost, and flattering exclamations concerning the fabulous salaries which the people of the United States must earn, that they could afford to spend such large sums on mere pleasure journeys. But, strange as an American must have seemed in this little-traveled country, nobody—not even the shopkeepers or the children—thought of asking where we came from or where we were going, or what we were doing in Andorra. And, so far as we could tell, they did not gossip about us to each other. Perhaps a couple of tourists from the Western Hemisphere did not seem so very important to people whose ancestors were enjoying a republican form of government, in the midst of mountains two miles high, a thousand years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

This invincible taciturnity of the Andorrans soon gains your respect. You feel that they

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