THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA"
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"...When America was discovered,
said the Radical member,
and he began to give some wearisome facts.
Like all people who try to exhaust a subject,
he exhausted his listeners.
The Duchess sighed,
and exercised her privilege of interruption.
I wish to goodness
it never had been discovered at all !
she exclaimed.
Perhaps, after all,
America never has been discovered,
said Mr Erskine.
I myself would say
that it had merely been detected." (p.63)
"Why can't these American women stay in their own country ?
They are always telling us that it is the Paradise for women.
It is.
That is the reason why,
like Eve,
they are so excessively anxious to get out of it,
said Lord Henry.
Good-bye, Uncle George.
I shall be late for lunch..." (p.59)