Sorry, list folks-- I thought this was from a pal. Didn't check the header
before I hit reply.

On Jul 18, 2017 11:13 AM, "Leslie MYRICK" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> I have NO IDEA
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> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Dave Davis <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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>> What does the word 'dot' -- in quotes in the original -- refer to?
>>
>> DDD
>>
>> https://archive.org/details/jstor-25119224 ; or
>> http://www.online-literature.com/twain/3263/
>>
>> "Rich American girls do buy titles, but they did not invent that idea; it
>> had been worn threadbare several hundred centuries before America was
>> discovered. European girls still exploit it as briskly as ever; and, when
>> a
>> title is not to be had for the money in hand, they buy the husband without
>> it. They must put up the "dot," or there is no trade. The
>> commercialization
>> of brides is substantially universal, except in America. It exists with
>> us,
>> to some little extent, but in no degree approaching a custom."
>>
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