[1] Since my return, I find that there has been a recrudescence of this fiscal foolishness in New York with an addition of personal persecution. By the time these pages are in my readers’ hands the autocrats of the inquisition will probably have heard something drop. To bully the American Woman is too large an order even for the Great Republic.
[2] With true French economy the price of the chain is charged against the convict’s “Succession”—i.e. any deferred savings that he may leave behind him.
