He said that he shouldn't have put it quite so forcibly, but that he hadn't given much thought to the subject.

I said that I had, and I thought we had gone on long enough filling the coffers of the British nobility with American gold." "FRANCES!" I interrupted.

"Don't tell me that you made that vulgar, cheap newspaper assertion!" "I did," she replied stoutly, "and at the moment I only wished I could make it stronger.

If there had been anything cheaper or more vulgar, I should have said it, but of course there isn't.

Then he remarked that the British nobility merited and needed all the support it could get in these hard times, and asked if we had not cherished some intention in the States, lately, of bestowing it in greenbacks instead of gold! I threw all manners to the winds after that and told him that there were no husbands in the world like American men, and that foreigners never seemed to have any proper consideration for women.