In a letter I got the other day from the other side of the Atlantic, I was assured that Lord [Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of] Ellesmere pronounced the New York Crystal Palace a much more beautiful and better-built edifice than ours of Hyde Park glorious memory. I suppose his lordship must have been bent upon making himself desperately popular with the New Yorkians.

‘Zookers, lass, I never envy these young fellows their rides and scampers, unless when you come across me.’

For some adolescents, serial monogamy — or a succession of 'permanent' relationships — is the norm, confirming earlier findings with American adolescents reported by Sorensen (1973).

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