Do you know, there are over twenty-five thousand of them already in this country ?" "Oh, that's all right," said French, "but they'll learn our ways fast enough.

And as for teaching their children, pardon me, but it seems to me you are too good a man to waste in that sort of thing.
Why, bless my soul, you can get a girl for fifty dollars a month who would teach them fast enough.

But you--now you could do big things in this country, and there are going to be big things doing here in a year or two." "What things ?" said Brown with evident interest.
"Oh, well, ranching, farming on a big scale, building railroads, lumber up on the hills, then, later, public life.

We will be a province, you know, one of these days, and the men who are in at the foundation making will stand at the top later on." "You're all right," cried Brown, his eyes alight with enthusiasm.
"There will be big things doing, and, believe me, this is one of them." "What?
Teaching a score of dirty little Galicians?
The chances are you'll spoil them.

They are good workers as they are.