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Snobbishness is not confined to one set of people. Emphasized by fashion or literary pretensions it spreads from village to city. It exists in sardine factories and in palatial mansions; it is met with at picnics and dances as well as at dinner or conversation parties. The links are close.

When a society young man ventures to marry a non-society girl enough comments are made to furnish Miss Braddon with material for a new novel. Is not a lady a lady anyway, whether in public or in private life, whether a school-teacher or a book-keeper, or living in a secluded street? And yet, if she marries up in the world, how fortunate she is considered! Simple, lovely, intelligent young women, respectful, upright young men still exist, and make the delight of home and society, as do the few chivalric individuals who will talk to lonely girls at parties for more than an hour rather than leave them alone, the latter in their humility never fancy-

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