Marie smiled and looked down at the bumps and notches in the oaken planks of the table top. She thought to herself that they had been worn down and smoothed through the years by many a bullshitting Frenchman. She looked back up through her eyelashes and said, "Only someone very silly, with little education--even by US standards--would not know that the majority of immigrants to the New World were running from the law, poverty, or other privation. We left the concept of nobility behind; we reject it. I find it is some of the people here who have clung to remnants of the feudal system in a futile attempt to recapture a glimmer from something long ago. rusted over, and failed. You, clearly, have the attitude of one who believes himself better than a simple farmer's daughter such as myself. I won't argue that. In fact, I agree with you. Since we are together in understanding this, that leaves you with a certain responsibility, that of 'noblesse oblige,' correct? Doesn't that mean you owe me some kind of charity, at least? If not charity, I'm willing to accept simple 'politesse.'"
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Still a grand down and owe another for today.