the end
product of
an archaic
world, and
as such,
worthless.
McKisco’s
contacts
with the
princely
classes in
America
had
impressed
upon him
their
uncertain
and
fumbling
snobbery,
their
delight in
ignorance
and their
deliberate
rudeness,
all lifted
from the
English
with no
regard
paid to
factors
that make
English
philistinism
and
rudeness
purposeful,
and
applied in
a land
where a
little
knowledge
and
civility
buy more
than they
do
