“Oh, yes,” answered Alphonso, who had once stopped over night at Saratoga, and made a day’s excursion to Long Branch. “I meet so many of my fashionable friends there, that it is very pleasant for me.”
“Sans doute, and which do you prefare?”
“Saratoga, my lord count. It is the most high-toned, in my opinion. My friends, the Vernons, of Madison avenue, always go there.”
“I once did know a Marquis de Vernon in my own country.”
“A relation of my friends,” said Alphonso, confidently. “How long has your lordship been in America?”
“Tree week, zat is all.”
“Have you been in New York all the time?”
“No, Monsieur Jones, I did visit Boston and Philadelphia, but New York is one fine city, ze best of all; it reminds me of Paris.”
“Paris is a very beautiful city, I have always heard, my lord count.”
“Oh, très magnifique. Zere is no city like it. Have you visited Paris, Monsieur Alphonse?”