But, for the first time in all my life, I doubted his discretion on the following day, when he had--what shall I say ?--when he had been exchanging sentiments with Uncle Sam." "Uncle Sam never takes too much in any way," I replied to this new attack; "he knows what he ought to take, and then he stops.

Do you think that it may have been his 'sentiments,' perhaps, that were too strong and large for the Major ?" "Erema!" cried Mrs.Hockin, with amazement, as if I had no right to think or express my thoughts on life so early; "if you can talk politics at eighteen, you are quite fit to go any where.

I have heard a great deal of American ladies, and seen not a little of them, as you know.
But I thought that you called yourself an English girl, and insisted particularly upon it." "Yes, that I do; and I have good reason.

I am born of an old English family, and I hope to be no disgrace to it.

But being brought up in a number of ways, as I have been without thinking of it, and being quite different from the fashionable girls Major Hockin likes to walk with--" "My dear, he never walks with any body but myself!" "Oh yes, I remember! I was thinking of the deck.