29/35 It has been well invested, and father told me this morning I was a fairly rich little woman. Basil has some private fortune, also his stipend--we shall do very well. Basil's family is one of the finest among the old Boston aristocrats, and he is closely connected with the English Stanhopes, who rank with the greatest of the nobility." "I wish Americans would learn to rely on their own nobility. I am tired of their everlasting attempts to graft on some English noble family. Often father frets me in the same way. |