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Tammany (search for this): chapter 27
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Americans (search for this): chapter 27
Chapter 27: the antidote to money
One can hardly read the letters from Europe describing fashionable society without discovering that it is perfectly possible for Americans, even those who have been regarded at home as rather vulgar and pushing, to get at least far enough in the English circles of fashion to see and describe the grandest functions.
How the knowledge is obtained is not the question.
Like the snubbed man of the world in the inimitable Dolly Dialogues, these witnesses may at least claim that if they do not meet Lord Mickleham socially they know his valet.
Even in the smaller field of America it is known that old John, the black head-waiter at the Ocean House, in Newport, used to furnish regular material for certain lady journalists by his hints of conversations overheard, reminiscences of family history, and even descriptions of dress.
In a more highly developed fashionable life in England, John appears in the form of some impoverished cousin of a countess, or
1896 AD (search for this): chapter 27
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