Excerpt from Calling the Tune

"Gee, this is bully."

The speaker was not an American, did not even look like an American, but he felt that the situation called for the conventional, hall-marked and highly respectable American comment. He might very well have said to himself - for the remark, though vocally uttered, was addressed to no companion - "Now this is very pleasant," or "This is simply ripping." Also he might have said things of the same nature in French, or German, or Spanish, especially Spanish - but he declined to take advantage of these lingual opportunities. The spirit of contentment within him expressed itself in the consecrated formula:

"Gee, this is bully."

Wickliff Hersham knew perfectly well that there were hundreds, even thousands, of citizens of the United States who do not habitually thus express their sense of gratification. He knew also that they always did so in the English romances which introduce American gentlemen to an unsophisticated audience.

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