1857, Henry A. Murray, Lands of the Slave and the Free Chapter , The American system is doubtless the best for the hotelkeeper, as there are manifest advantages in feeding masses at once, over feeding the same number in detail.
1921, Charles A. Murdock, A Backward Glance at Eighty Chapter , Leon Chevret, the French hotelkeeper, said of him to a lawyer of his acquaintance, "Bret Harte, he have the Napoleonic nose, the nose of genius; also, like many of you professional men, his debts trouble him very little."
