Passage Audio
This humorous story, published in 1890, is about a couple on
vacation who want to spend time with "nice" people, people
they believe are as interesting as they are. The setting is a
guest house, or inn, where the couple has been staying.
Each morning, guests gather for breakfast and then set off
on daily activities.
from The Nice People
by Henry Cuyler Bunner
"They certainly are nice people," I assented to
my wife's observation, using the colloquial.
phrase with a consciousness that it was
anything but "nice" English, "and I'll bet that
their three children are better brought up than
most of
"Two children, corrected my wife.
"Three, he told me."
In the Passage, review the paragraph that
begins on page 3 and ends on page 5.
Click the underlined phrase on these pages that
BEST expresses the author's sarcastic point of
view.