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Eliot Gregory. Worldly Ways & Byways
Worldly Ways & Byways
Table of Contents
To the Reader
No. 1—Charm
No. 2—The Moth and the Star
No. 3—Contrasted Travelling
No. 4—The Outer and the Inner Woman
No. 5—On Some Gilded Misalliances
No. 6—The Complacency of Mediocrity
No. 7—The Discontent of Talent
No. 8—Slouch
No. 9—Social Suggestion
No. 10—Bohemia
No. 11—Social Exiles
No. 12—“Seven Ages” of Furniture
No. 13—Our Elite and Public Life
No. 14—The Small Summer Hotel
No. 15—A False Start
No. 16—A Holy Land
No. 17—Royalty At Play
No. 18—A Rock Ahead
No. 19—The Grand Prix
No. 20—“The Treadmill.”
No. 21—“Like Master Like Man.”
No. 22—An English Invasion of the Riviera
No. 23—A Common Weakness
No. 24—Changing Paris
No. 25—Contentment
No. 26—The Climber
No. 27—The Last of the Dandies
No. 28—A Nation on the Wing
No. 29—Husks
No. 30—The Faubourg of St. Germain
No. 31—Men’s Manners
No. 32—An Ideal Hostess
No. 33—The Introducer
No. 34—A Question and an Answer
No. 35—Living on your Friends
No. 36—American Society in Italy
No. 37—The Newport of the Past
No. 38—A Conquest of Europe
No. 39—A Race of Slaves
Chapter 40—Introspection [276]
Footnotes
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Eliot Gregory
Published by Good Press, 2021
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If I remember, we were then thirteen days getting to Liverpool, and made the acquaintance on board of the people with whom we travelled during most of that winter. Imagine anyone now making an acquaintance on board a steamer! In those simple days people depended on the friendships made at summer hotels or boarding-houses for their visiting list. At present, when a girl comes out, her mother presents her to everybody she will be likely to know if she were to live a century. In the seventies, ladies cheerfully shared their state-rooms with women they did not know, and often became friends in consequence; but now, unless a certain deck-suite can be secured, with bath and sitting-room, on one or two particular “steamers,” the great lady is in despair. Yet our mothers were quite as refined as the present generation, only they took life simply, as they found it.
Children are now taken abroad so young, that before they have reached an age to appreciate what they see, Europe has become to them a twice-told tale. So true is this, that a receipt for making children good Americans is to bring them up abroad. Once they get back here it is hard to entice them away again.
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