Note 91 — Chapter VI

Revoltingly as this exclamation from a lady’s mouth would sound to “ears polite” in England, yet it is in common use, even in the first circle of Spanish Society. The different manner of pronouncing the J, making it Hèsus, mitigates in some degree the disgust with which it cannot but be heard by Englishmen: the word appearing to have a different import, as it were, until the ear becomes accustomed to its use. The vulgarisms of one nation are often thus passed over by another,—most fortunately in some instances,—for with married couples it frequently happens this “ignorance is bliss.”