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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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