Sometimes it seems a bit like the righteous foundling type in Henry James' Princess Casamassima -- his guardians sacrifice to send him for a fortnight to Paris, and he frequents the theatres and the cafe -- James' point being that he's not urbane enough to have the adventures that Strether thinks he's having in Paris in The Ambassadors, meeting and penetrating social circles. But this is perhaps Henry's own ways and vices clouding the issue. In the event, foundling types with peculiar notions of the right are best off avoiding his types of social circles. The city is still there.
