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The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 02 by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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"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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