AN EXPATRIATE

There was once an American thief who fled his country and took

refuge in England. He dressed himself after the fashion of the

Londoners, and taught his tongue the peculiarities of the London

pronunciation and did his best in all ways to pass himself for a

native. But he did two fatal things: he stopped at the Langham

Hotel, and the first trip he took was to visit Stratford-on-Avon and

the grave of Shakespeare. These things betrayed his nationality.

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