"But I have been a good deal about Sweden, and he is not in the least like a respectable Swedish burgher.

Did you not tell me that his uncle, who left him all that money, was your father's partner in business ?" "Yes, I remember once or twice hearing the old gentleman say he had a nephew.

But he was a silent man, though he piled up the dollars." "Claudius is a silent man too," said the Duke.
"And he has sailed into the dollars ready piled." But this was before the eventful day just described; and the Duke had forgotten the conversation, though he had repeated the reflections to himself, and found them true.

To tell the truth, Claudius looked more like a duke than his host, for the sea air had blown away the professorial cobwebs; and, after all, it did not seem so very incongruous in the Englishman's eyes that his handsome guest should fall in love with the Countess Margaret.

Only, it was very uncomfortable; and he did not know exactly what he should do with them for the next ten days.