“tribute. In time, however, his mannerisms lent themselves to satire (sentences ending with the studied pseudo-British nonchalance of “dontchersee?” or “dontcherknow?”), and his publication in 1890 of his late-career memoir, Society as I Have Found It, infuriated the very Society he had shaped, cultivated, and served. The memoir struck the Four Hundred as an egregious breach of confidentiality or, worse, a how-to manual for social climbers. Society did not care to see itself reflected in such a faulty mirror, and McAllister’s book had exposed him as an exalted exalted Gilded Age butler. Tichi, Cecelia. What Would Mrs. Astor Do? (Kindle Location 961). NYU Press. Kindle Edition. Tichi, Cecelia. What Would Mrs. Astor Do? (Kindle Locations 957-961). NYU Press. Kindle Edition. ”

— link to Truman Capote book