But it is a good deal of a real handicap, and it adds that much dead weight that a man must overcome; and it greatly lessens the respect in which our Government and its Ambassador are held.

If I had known this fully in advance, I should not have had the courage to come here.

Now, of course, I've got used to it, have discounted it, and can "bull" it through--could "bull" it through if I could afford to pay the bill.

But I shouldn't advise any friend of mine to come here and face this humiliation without realizing precisely what it means--wholly apart, of course, from the cost of it.

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