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They were very old-fashioned and precise, and Frau Generalin often told me that American girls were too ausgelassen in their manners. Young girls must keep their eyes more cast down, looking up only occasionally. I was expected to stop and drop a little courtesy on meeting an older woman, and then to inquire after the health of each member of the family.
She would then look puzzled, shrug her shoulders, and often say, "Ach! times are different I suppose, but my ideas can never change." Now the dear Frau Generalin did not speak a word of English, and as I had had only a few lessons in German before I left America, I had the utmost difficulty at first in comprehending what she said.
"He is my Bursche now," said the general explanatorily. "My wife has taken a fancy to him. Ach! he is very popular with these women." The consul was still more surprised. The Frau Generalin Adlerkreutz he knew to be a pronounced Englishwoman, carrying out her English ways, proprieties, and prejudices in the very heart of Schlachtstadt, uncompromisingly, without fear and without reproach.
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