The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 02 by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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speak English.
"Well, when you have seen an old and a new house of these folks, you have seen all. Featurs differ a little, but face of all is so alike, that though p'raps you wouldn't mistake one for another, yet you'd say they was all of one family. The king is their father. "Now it may seem kinder odd to you, and I do suppose it will, but what little natur there is to England is among these upper crust nobility. _Extremes meet_. The most elegant critter in America is an Indgian chief. The most elegant one in England is a noble. There is natur in both. You will vow that's a crotchet of mine, but it's a fact; and I will tell you how it is, some other time. For I opine the most charmin', most nateral, least artificial, kindest, and condescendenest people here are rael nobles. Younger children are the devil, half rank makes 'em proud, and entire poverty makes 'em sour. _Strap pride on an empty puss, and it puts a most beautiful edge on, it cuts like a razor_. They have to assart their dignity, tother one's dignity don't want no assartin'. It speaks for itself. "I won't enter into particulars now. I want to shew you country life; because if you don't want to hang yourself, don't tarry there, that's all; go and look at 'em, but don't stay there. If you can't help it no how, you can fix it, do it in three days; one to come, one to see, and one to go. If you do that, and make the fust late, |
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