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Aristocratic Bad Manners

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
February
Year
1873
Copyright
Public Domain
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So far as niannors aro concerned, I am bound to ssiy that the worst casos of rudonos;; an 1 ill broediíig thnt havo ever como to my knowledge, havo not occurred in the " rural districts," nor among the lowor ten thousand, but in those circlos of America whero the whole aim ín life might p.coin to be the culíivation of its elegancias. For instanco, I know a watering placo where tho story is currontly tolcí of cortain young ladios, who havo wbat is crclled a "pomtion in fsctñoty," and Who, :iftcr rofusing an invitatioñ to tho house of a lady not quite admitted to suoh a position, yet do not disdain to go by niglit and sit ön her piazza during tire entertainment, without hor kirowlciljro, to look through tho Windows at her guests, and Snally, to partako ot' her siijiper, bronght to them snrreptitiotigly by in obseqwous cavalier,

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Old News
Michigan Argus