Excerpt from Odd, or Even?"Middle-Class! I've no patience!" Miss Amman, with her nose nearly horizontal. "We're all middle-class. "We're all between somebody and somebody else. But you need n't be middling. It's only middling that's mean, anywhere."And yet, Miss Ammah, your grocer's family - "Grocer? What's a grocer? Look in your Webster. Your father's a grocer."Why, Miss Ammah! Papa sells cargoes."Miss Ammah was great on etymologies. "What his vessels are charged with, that is?"Of course - I suppose so." The two first words came at once, the last three dubiously and slower, as if the girl, be tween her periods, mistrusted that she might be jumping into a trap."And Mr. Raxley sells what his warehouse is charged with. Where's the difference?"Euphemia spoke now. It had been Helen before."Papa studies the world, " she said proudly. "He brings things over the seas. The other man takes what he brings and sells it over a counter."The other man studies his neighborhood and what his neighbors want, but you have reason, Euphemia. Only they both stand between, that is what I said. And it is a round and round. Nobody is actually bottom and nobody is actually top, any more than they are on the globe."About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.