so actively represented. Most people imagined them to be the very apex of the pyramid; but they themselves (at least those of Mrs. Archer's generation) were aware that, in the eyes of the professional genealogist, only a still smaller number of families could lay claim to that eminence.
\"Don't tell me,\" Mrs. Archer would say to her children, \"all this modern newspaper rubbish about a New York aristocracy. If there is one,
so actively represented. Most people imagined them to be the very apex of the pyramid; but they themselves (at least those of Mrs. Archer's generation) were aware that, in the eyes of the professional genealogist, only a still smaller number of families could lay claim to that eminence.
\"Don't tell me,\" Mrs. Archer would say to her children, \"all this modern newspaper rubbish about a New York aristocracy. If there is one,
