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The Attache

CHAPTER VII
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Every thing is artificial; every thing of its kind alike; and every thing oninterestin' and tiresome.
"Well, if London is dull, in the way of West Eend people, the country, I guess, is a little mucher.

Life in the country is different, of course, from life in town; but still life itself is alike there, exceptin' again _class difference_.

That is, nobility is all alike, as far as their order goes; and country gents is alike, as far as their class goes; and the last especially, when they hante travelled none, everlastin' flat, in their own way.

Take a lord, now, and visit him to his country seat, and I'll tell you what you will find--a sort of Washington State house place.

It is either a rail old castle of the genuine kind, or a gingerbread crinkum crankum imitation of a thing that only existed in fancy, but never was seen afore--a thing that's made modern for use, and in ancient stile for shew; or else it's a great cold, formal, slice of a London terrace, stack on a hill in a wood.
"Well, there is lawn, park, artificial pond called a lake, deer that's fashionablized and civilized, and as little natur in 'em as the humans have.


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