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or eggs, but in France, with the wonderful sauces, embellishments and all, you could feed to one's hearts content without seriously milking the pocket book (That was before the Americans came "en force" with pockets full and spendthrift hearts.)  
    The proportion of wages to price of articles is very much [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] lower here than in the States and consequently the Americans who expect to pay large prices give generously and are known as "the rich army".  A [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[blank]] of a name that is, for ^[[what it stands for]]  [[strikethrough]] its [[/strikethrough]] spoils [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[the trend of finance]] and causes no end of annoyance in the matter of tips, which should not exceed what is commonly expected of course. The French public is sore at us for this already.
     [I can't understand ^[[either]] why leather goods (which find origin in Americas, North or South) should be cheaper in England than in New York or Boston.  You get better leather goods in London than I've ever seen in the above cities, not that I'm a judge outside of the few articles I myself have obtained.  The profiteering in American has, in short, got my nanny!]