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One story that circulated about (U.S. Minister to Russia Charles S.) Todd concerned his conversation with a lady-in-waiting at an Imperial reception in the Winter Palace. In his bad French with a Kentucky accent, he mispronounced the word for year, so that an explanation of his travels came out: I was an ass in Paris, part of an ass in London, almost an ass in Germany, and I am two asses here. To which the lady reportedly responded, And you will be an ass wherever you go.

Norman E. Saul

One story that circulated about (U.S. Minister to Russia Charles S.) Todd concerned his conversation with a lady-in-waiting at an Imperial reception in the Winter Palace. In his bad French with a Kentucky accent, he mispronounced the word for year, so that an explanation of his travels came out: I was an ass in Paris, part of an ass in London, almost an ass in Germany, and I am two asses here. To which the lady reportedly responded, And you will be an ass wherever you go.

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