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The narrator is describing the Otis family at length, here focusing on Mrs. Otis—a scant character who appears only sporadically throughout The Canterville Ghost. Nevertheless, the narrator lavishes her with description, giving her a full paragraph before this quote, and here employing one of the witticisms for which Wilde was to become famous. The Americans and the British, of course, largely come from a common country with a shared history. They possess similar customs, and much of American law is English in origin. Certainly, the two countries share a language together, as witnessed by the narrator’s tongue-in-cheek reversal of…