Yes, I regret that Miss Light should marry one of these used-up foreigners.

Americans should stand by each other.

If she wanted a brilliant match we could have fixed it for her.

If she wanted a fine fellow--a fine, sharp, enterprising modern man--I would have undertaken to find him for her without going out of the city of New York.

And if she wanted a big fortune, I would have found her twenty that she would have had hard work to spend: money down--not tied up in fever-stricken lands and worm-eaten villas! What is the name of the young man?
Prince Castaway, or some such thing!" It was well for Mr.Leavenworth that he was a voluminous and imperturbable talker; for the current of his eloquence floated him past the short, sharp, startled cry with which Roderick greeted his "conversational trifle." The young man stood looking at him with parted lips and an excited eye.
"The position of woman," Mr.Leavenworth placidly resumed, "is certainly a very degraded one in these countries.