1. Fashion, or Life in New York by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt
... girl is worth her weight in gold. (Aside) Millinette, how do you say armchair in French? Millinette: Fauteuil, Madame. Mrs. Tiffany: Fo-tool! That has a foreign-an out-of-the-wayish sound that is perfectly charming-and so genteel! There is something about our American words decidedly vulgar. Fowtool! How refined. Fowtool! Arm-chair! What a ... reputation! There is Mrs. Adolphus Dashaway-she gave the most splendid fete of the season-and I hear on very good authority that her husband has not paid his baker's bill in three months. Then there was Mrs. Honeywood- Mr. Tiffany: Gave a ball that ...
- Word Count: 2560
- Approx Pages: 10
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: High School