Mr. Dimock (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Mr. Dimock When his friends in New York and Yonkers accused Horace Dimock of no longer loving his own country, he always answered, with his enchanting smile, "Does anybody come back to it as often as I do? Twenty times in twenty-two years?" But when they carried it farther and reproached him for his devotion to England, he did not let them know that, for twenty times to New York, he had gone thirty to London. What is it that calls the most American-American back to London? Those old friends of Horace's, the Howard girls, always ascribed it to a supreme egotism latent in us all. They had not been the "Howard girls, " (Katharine, the elder, was fond of saying) since the last century. Katty was now Lady Freke, and had openly thrown in her lot with England, announcing, with her air of deprecating infallibility, that something in you made you hang about the scene of your ancestors' crimes. This being so, how many crimes, or how many American ancestors, London must have harboured! It must harbour many even now, this June of 1919. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.