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The Gilded Age
Part 4.

CHAPTER XXXIII
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We all have our shams--I suppose there is a sham somewhere about every individual, if we could manage to ferret it out.

I would so like to go to France.

I suppose our society here compares very favorably with French society does it not, Mrs.Oreille ?" Mrs.O.--"Not by any means, Miss Hawkins! French society is much more elegant--much more so." Laura--"I am sorry to hear that.

I suppose ours has deteriorated of late." Mrs.O.--"Very much indeed.

There are people in society here that have really no more money to live on than what some of us pay for servant hire.


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