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The American

CHAPTER XV
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You will see a great many of the best people in France.

I mean the long pedigrees and the high noses, and all that.

Some of them are awful idiots; I advise you to take them up cautiously." "Oh, I guess I shall like them," said Newman.

"I am prepared to like every one and everything in these days; I am in high good-humor." Valentin looked at him a moment in silence and then dropped himself into a chair with an unwonted air of weariness.
"Happy man!" he said with a sigh.

"Take care you don't become offensive." "If any one chooses to take offense, he may.


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