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Eloise observes the French scene with a sharp eye that would have done credit to Voltaire or Art Buchwald. She is always eager to share her discoveries, whether it is the excellent advice that "you cawn't cawn't cawn't get a good cup of tea so you have to have champagne" or the poignant historical observation that "there are absolutely no kings in France." accompanied by a shattering picture of this child Jacobin dancing her version of the carmagnole in Versailles' Hall of Mirrors. With near-genius she manages to use Paris...
...Some of the costumes were sent on to New York by mistake," he said, "so we just cawn't use all of you. I'm ever so sorry." He gestured to a boy standing near him. "You look Spanish," he said. "You can be one of the sword-bearers." He hesitated a moment. "Oh God no, not with that horrid crew-cut. You'd stand out like a sore thumb...
...Yahd" accent is not unpleasant as is claimed, he asserted. "It's all right to say 'cawn't' and 'bawth' if it is done in a nice, musical tone," he stated...
...ever quite fathom, and whose charm no New England town can ever quite equal--for a Southerner. Charlottesville is Virginia, and Virginia is Charlottesville. There is no escaping this cycle. Further south, in the Carolinas, the college boys are required to drink a jug of "so'th'n cawn" to prove they are gentlemen and scholars. Ther is no necessity for such measures at the University of Virginia. It is considered an insult even to intimate that a Virginian could not master such a meagre portion of the brew on which he has been raised...
...However, now that I have gradually lulled my mind into a some what reminiscent mood, I do recall incidents which have come close to kindling the spark of revolt in my breast, because, you know, I was 'bawn in Kaintuckee and cawn-fed in Alabamy', and the Mason-Dixon line having always possessed for me the proportions of a veritable wall of China, I was prepared to be intensely critical, vibrantly sensitive, and susceptible to every influence brought to bear on me at Harvard. How faithfully I have fulfilled this vow remains to be seen...