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World, and least of all among the women of New
England. They were so haughty and puffed up with
pride, so unlovely--one read the stamp of money both
in glance and figure. I was told that Mrs. So-and-so
and her sister had spent a year in Paris. They ought
to have brought thence a little Parisian grace and
common sense as well as fashion I People who are
arrogant on account of their wealth are about equal
in civilization to Laplanders, who measure a man’s
worth by the number of his reindeer. A man with a
thousand reindeer is a very great man. The aristocracy
of wealth is the lowest and commonest possible. It
is a pity that one meets it in America more than
one ought to. One can even, in walking through the
streets, hear the expression, "He is worth so and
so many dollars!" But the best people here despise
such expressions. They would never defile the lips of
Marcus Spring, Channing, or Mr. Downing. And it must
be acknowledged that the fashionable circles are not
considered the highest here. One hears people spoken
of as "above fashion," and by this is meant people
of the highest class. It 5s dear that there is an
aristocracy forming here by degrees which is much
higher than that of birth, property, or position
in society; it is really an aristocracy of merit,
of amiability, and of character. But it is not
general. As yet there is only a
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