[Pink and White Tyranny by Harriet Beecher Stowe]@TWC D-Link bookPink and White Tyranny CHAPTER XVI 11/18
Mr. Wilcox was saying, this morning, that his money was made by frauds on the government, which ought to have put him in the State Prison." "Now, I say," said Mrs.Lennox, "such people ought to be put down socially: I have no patience with their airs.
And that Mrs. Follingsbee, I have heard that she was a milliner, or shop-girl, or some such thing; and to see the airs she gives herself! One would think it was the Empress Eugenie herself, come to queen it over us in America.
I can't help thinking we ought to take a stand.
I really do." "But, dear Mrs.Lennox, we are not obliged to cultivate further relations with people, simply from exchanging ordinary civilities with them on one evening," said Judge Ferguson. "But, my dear sir, these pushing, vulgar, rich people take advantage of every opening.
Give them an inch, and they will take an ell," said Mrs.Lennox.
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