[The Avalanche by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Avalanche CHAPTER I 26/45
"The girl is all right, but I don't like the mother.
She is well dressed--oh, correct from tip to toe--but not quite the lady." Ruyler's cool insolent gaze swept the dado of amiable overfed ladies who fanned themselves against the wall. "None of that! You know that I do not tolerate the New York attitude. At least we know who ours are; they came into their own respectably, and with no uncertain touch.
Of course it is stupid of them to get fat. Naturally it makes them look _bourgeoise_.
But this is a lazy climate. As to that woman: there is something about her I do not like.
She is aggressively not massaged, not made up.
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