A French tutor connects with an American family after succeeding in breaking into the iron industry. The family conspires to somehow become involved in French high society. Excerpt: "To begin, I am a Frenchman, a teacher of languages, and a poor man,—necessarily a poor man, as the great world would say, or I should not be a teacher of languages, and my wife a copyist of great pictures…"
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