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 equally natural to her, and which was as scornful and aristocratic as if she had been born a princess.

"Do you not find the American girls very different from any others, Clawski?" he asked, as the two men left the house together.

"Mon Dieu, yes," replied the diplomate. "I do not pretend to understand them, and have never anything to say to them. They are to me charming, but incomprehensible. With the married women I am at home, but with the young ladies who rule so much in American society, I am quite at a loss to understand, or make myself understood."