"And as for beauty, she is a wild rose!" Now, there were reasons why the captain should rejoice when Hugo allied himself to the little mees.

On the day when he would take these hills of gold and wild rose to himself, the captain would become the head of the house of Wolfburgh.

It was, perhaps, a mean, ungilded throne, but by German law no nameless Yankee woman could sit upon it.
The prince looked at Captain Odo.

"You cannot put me into a gallop when I choose to walk," he said.

"She's a pretty girl, and a good girl, and some time I may marry her, but not now." Odo laughed good-humoredly, and they sauntered down the path together.
The prince had offered to dine with Miss Vance that evening, but sent a note to say that he was summoned to the Highlands unexpectedly.
"It is adieu, not auf wiedersehen, I fear, with his Highness," Miss Vance said, folding the note pensively.