"At the Hague I expect to find something worth seeing," continued Mrs. Parkman.
It has been in a large measure dissipated by Parkman's masterly histories, but the ideas born of popular fiction die hard.
We went to supper afterwards at Mrs. Parkman's, and saw the lioness feed.
Parkman always dictated instead of holding the pen, and his huge mass of documents had to be read aloud to him.
In Parkman's great book we have a record of vanished conditions such as hardly exists anywhere else in literature.