Excerpt from An English Girl in Paris

My old uncle Jack Mortimer lives in Paris in a charming little appartement in the Avenue Friedland, where he has been installed ever since his wife died, some ten years ago. She taught him to love Paris, and now he could not live anywhere else if he tried. Yet he remains, in spite of this, entirely British, with all his insular prejudices and even his English accent intact, though from long and intimate intercourse with French people he knows their language "from cellar to garret."

Most English women can take root in Paris if they are planted there young enough, and find the soil congenial, even going to the length of a French husband, without apparently suffering any radical or deteriorating change of character.

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