Yes; and of a great country." "Then I did not fail as messenger, after all! You told Mr.Calhoun what he desired to know ?" "In part at least.

But come now, was I not bound in some sort of honor to my great and good friend, Sir Richard?
Was it not treachery enough to rebuke him for his attentions to the Dona Lucrezia ?" "But you promised to tell Mr.Calhoun more at a later time ?" "On certain conditions I did," she assented.
"I do not know that I may ask those ?" "You would be surprised if I told you the truth?
What I required of Mr.
Calhoun was permission and aid still further to study his extraordinary country, its extraordinary ways, its extraordinary ignorance of itself.
I have told you that I needed to travel, to study, to observe mankind--and those governments invented or tolerated by mankind." "Since then, Madam," I concluded, stepping to assist her with her chair, as she signified her completion of our repast, "since you do not feel now inclined to be specific, I feel that I ought to make my adieux, for the time at least.

It grows late.

I shall remember this little evening all my life.

I own my defeat.