tulieries

Updated: June 5, 2025

You grow six inches high, and then you stop. Why will not somebody grow to be a tree and cast a shadow?" The average member of New York society, although not unused to this contemptuous kind of treatment from his leaders, retaliated in his blind, common-sense way. "What does the woman want?" he said. "Is her head turned with the Tulieries and Marlborough House?

Henry Adams - Democracy, an American novel