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His wife had no reluctance. "Well, there's no comparison between the two things, but the struggle certainly doesn't affect the working classes as it does us. They go on marrying and giving in marriage in the old way. They have nothing to lose, and so they can afford it." "Blessed am dem what don't expect nuffin! Oh, I tell you, it's a working-man's country," said Makely, through his cigar-smoke.
But that is neither here nor there. Thanksgiving is a purely American thing, and it's more popular than ever. A few years ago you never heard of it outside of New England." The gentleman laughed. "You are perfectly right, Mrs. Makely, as you always are. Thanksgiving is purely American.
We all looked at it together. "This is the front door," Mrs. Makely explained, "where people come in, and then begins the misery of a house stairs! They mostly go up straight, but sometimes they have them curve a little, and in the new houses the architects have all sorts of little dodges for squaring them and putting landings.
"We don't keep well," said Mrs. Makely, with the greatest amusement. "I don't suppose that when you get above the working classes, till you reach the very rich, you would find a perfectly well woman in America." "Isn't that rather extreme?" I ventured to ask. "No," said Mrs. Makely, "it's shamefully moderate," and she seemed to delight in having made out such a bad case for her sex.
"We believe them the best in the best of all possible worlds," I said, devoutly; and it struck me that, if ever we came to have a national church, some such affirmation as that concerning our economical conditions ought to be in the confession of faith. The Altrurian's mind had not followed mine so far. "And your young girls," he asked of Mrs. Makely "how is their time occupied?"
Of course, it's rather an original way of doing, but there is sense in it where the people are too poor to go into debt for different churches, and " "It's admirable!" said the Altrurian. "I have heard about it from the Camps. It is an emblem of the unity which ought to prevail among Christians of all professions. How can I help you, Mrs. Makely?" "I knew you would approve of it!" she exulted.
Makely, with a pious glance at the sword over the bed, "he will have to say that, in spite of our divisions and classes, we are all Americans, and, if we haven't the same opinions and ideas on minor matters, we all have the same country." "I don't know about that," came from Reuben Camp, with shocking promptness. "I don't believe we all have the same country.
It does appear as if we had some interests in common, and might find it out if we ever came together." "It's a great advantage, the city people going into the country so much as they do now," said Mrs. Makely. "They bring five million dollars into the State of New Hampshire, alone, every summer."
Makely listened almost, as eagerly, as the Altrurian, for, as a cultivated American woman, she was necessarily quite ignorant of her own country, geographically, politically, and historically. "The only people left in the hill country of New England," I concluded, "are those who are too old or too lazy to get away.
She tried to look as if this were where she really meant to bring up, and he took her on the ground she had chosen. "Yes, we have quarrels. Hadn't you at home?" "We fought like little cats and dogs, at times." Makely and I burst into a laugh at her magnanimous frankness. The Altrurian remained serious. "But, because you lived alike, you knew each other, and so you easily made up your quarrels.
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