Since revolutions are inevitable, let us try at least to make them profitable." They are always talking about the people who are ruined by revolutions, but perhaps the number of those enriched by revolutions is still greater.
The Americans experience the attraction of Paris very strongly.

There is no town in the world where it is easier or more agreeable to spend a great dial of money.

For many reasons, both of race and origin, this attraction exercised over Mrs.Scott and Miss Percival a very remarkable power.
The most French of our colonies is Canada, which is no longer ours.
The recollection of their first home has been preserved faithfully and tenderly in the hearts of the emigrants to Montreal and Quebec.

Susie Percival had received from her mother an entirely French education, and she had brought up her sister in the same love of our country.

The two sisters felt themselves Frenchwomen; still better, Parisians.