One would think he was a Turk, an Esquimau, or a cannibal.

He is white, he speaks English, and he believes in the Christian religion.

The idea of calling such a man a foreigner!" "Oh, it didn't prevent me from loving him," she confessed, "but I thought at first it would be unpatriotic to marry him." "Did you think Columbia could not spare you even as a rare specimen to be used for exhibition purposes ?" I asked wickedly.
"You know I am not so conceited as that! No," she continued ingenuously, "I feared that if I accepted him it would look, over here, as if the home-supply of husbands were of inferior quality; and then we had such disagreeable discussions at the beginning, I simply could not bear to leave my nice new free country, and ally myself with his aeons of tiresome history.

But it came to me in the night, a week ago, that after all I should hate a man who didn't love his Fatherland; and in the illumination of that new idea Ronald's character assumed a different outline in my mind.

How could he love America when he had never seen it?
How could I convince him that American women are the most charming in the world in any better way than by letting him live under the same roof with a good example?
How could I expect him to let me love my country best unless I permitted him to love his best ?" "You needn't offer so many apologies for your infatuation, my dear," I answered dryly.
"I am not apologising for it!" she exclaimed impulsively.