Copy 1, Volume 1

Aristocracy in America / From the sketch-book of a German nobleman. Ed. By Francis J. Grund.

  • Francis Grund
Date:
1839
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Aristocracy in America / From the sketch-book of a German nobleman. Ed. By Francis J. Grund. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    what too sturdy independence of our lower classes.” “That I willingly grant,” said the first. “I know that the Duke of Saxe Weimar nar- rowly escaped a beating in the western country for presuming to hire a whole stage-coach for himself and his valet. Our country has not been settled long enough, and the conditions of men are too rapidly changing, for any one class to tolerate the peculiar manners and customs of the others.” ‘*Do you know the story about the duke and the New York hackney-coachman?” . ‘<I have heard so many anecdotes about the duke, that I cannot tell to which you refer.” “Why, they say that the duke went one evening in a hackney-coach to a party, and that the next day the coachman—or the driver, as he is here called—came for his money, asking the duke whether he was the man he had drove the night before; and, on being answered in the affirmative, informing him that ‘he was the gentleman what drove him,’ and that he had come for his half-dollar.”
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