Though she had become a true American, Mrs.Waring had never ceased to love the land of her birth, and she had always tried to impress Fred with her own feeling for the great house to which she had belonged.
"Such families as the Suvaroffs can do much harm to themselves and to others," she had said.

"But they can also be of great service to those of their blood, to those who are dependent upon them, and to their country." The truth of this was constantly being impressed anew upon Fred at this time.

He was struck especially by the difference between the way that the people of this house treated Boris and himself, and the attitude that had been noticeable in those who had served his uncle, Mikail Suvaroff.

Mikail was decidedly a greater figure than Boris's father.

Yet it was not devotion that he seemed to inspire.