The American Scene

If in Gramercy Park already, three hours after his arrival, he had felt himself, this victim, up to his neck in what I have called his 'subject,' the matter was quite beyond calculation by the time he had tumbled, in such a glorified 'four-wheeler,' and with such an odd consciousness of roughness superimposed upon smoothness, far down-town again, and, on the deck of a shining steamer bound for the Jersey shore, was taking all the breeze of the Bay.