"
"Taken in by them" was hard to bear, but I thought if I said nothing at
this point we might still have a peaceful evening. So I kept silence.
"Of course, I speak as a mere product of the American Constitution--a
common unit of the democracy," he went on, his sentences gathering wrath
as he rolled them out, "but if there were such a thing as an American
accent, I think I've lived long enough, and patrolled this little Union
of ours extensively enough, to hear it by this time. But it appears to
be necessary to reside four months in England, mixing freely with earls
and countesses, to detect it."
"Perhaps it is," I said, and I _may_ have smiled.
"I should hate to pay the price."
Mr. Page's tone distinctly expressed that the society of earls and
countesses would be, to him, contaminating.
Again I made no reply. I wanted the American accent to drop out of the
conversation, if possible, but Fate had willed it otherwise.
"I sai, y'know, awfly hard luck, you're havin' to settle down amongst
these barbarians again, bai Jove!"
I am not quite sure that it's a proper term for use in a book, but by
this time I was _mad_.
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