"You know we in France don't feel as they do in America, that one gets or loses caste when one gets or loses money.
Besides, Dory is in a profession that is quite aristocratic, and those lectures he delivered at Goettingen are really talked about everywhere on the other side." But Adelaide refused to be consoled.

"No, I'm not a lady--not what you'd call a lady, even as a Frenchwoman." "Oh, but _I_'m a good American!" Janet protested, suddenly prudent and rushing into the pretenses our transplanted and acclimatized sisters are careful to make when talking with us of the land whence comes their sole claim to foreign aristocratic consideration--their income.

"I'm really quite famous for my Americanism.

I've done a great deal toward establishing our ambassador at Paris in the best society.

Coming from a republic and to a republic that isn't recognized by our set in France, he was having a hard time, though he and his wife are all right at home.