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Show There are cheap and shabby Americans Ameri-cans who have made money late in life and by means the European aristocracies aristocra-cies would consider excluding its possessors from "society," who hanker after aristocratic airs with all the eagerness peculiar to persons not born to them and shallow enough to want them. It is such Americans who desire de-sire that our representatives abroad shall be put on par with the courtiers who are flunkeys for despot and runners run-ners for hereditary aristocrats. These parvenus imagine that by giving ministers minis-ters money enough "establishments" can be maintained in which they them-solves them-solves may attain rank with aristocrats. They dream In vain. They would be Only laughed at for boorishness. |