Vulgar words in Essays on Paul Bourget (Page 1)
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For instance, we should not write notes like that one of yours to a lady for a small fault-or a large one.-[When M. Paul Bourget indulges in a little chaffing at the expense of the Americans, "who can always get away with a few years' trying to find out who their grandfathers were,"] he merely makes an allusion to an American foible; but, forsooth, what a kind man, what a humorist Mark Twain is when he retorts by calling France a nation of bastards!
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When you say that I "retort by calling France a nation of bastards," it is an error.