The appropriation which he had engineered through Congress for the maintenance, of the Indians in his Territory would have made all those savages rich if it had ever got to them.
The Hon.

Mrs.Higgins was a picturesque woman, and a fluent talker, and she held a tolerably high station among the Parvenus.

Her English was fair enough, as a general thing--though, being of New York origin, she had the fashion peculiar to many natives of that city of pronouncing saw and law as if they were spelt sawr and lawr.
Petroleum was the agent that had suddenly transformed the Gashlys from modest hard-working country village folk into "loud" aristocrats and ornaments of the city.
The Hon.

Patrique Oreille was a wealthy Frenchman from Cork.

Not that he was wealthy when he first came from Cork, but just the reverse.