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 > > On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Dave Davis <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > >> 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." >> > >