Besides, I am sure that that young man was a South American, and I hate South Americans!" "I fancy," I said, "that the attention he bestowed upon us was due to a more obvious cause." "Please do not talk like that," she begged.

"I do not wish for compliments from you.

I have been told always that Englishmen are so truthful.

One has compliments from Frenchmen, from Spaniards, and from South Americans.

They fall like froth from their lips, and one knows all the time that it means nothing, and less than nothing.