Miss Nixon was pretty, and she must have looked well with her white teeth showing in the act; but at the time I was too solemnly occupied to admire her looks.

I did take great pleasure in her smile of approval, whenever I pronounced well; and her patience and perseverance in struggling with us over that thick little word are becoming to her even now, after fifteen years.

It is not her fault if any of us to-day give a buzzing sound to the dreadful English _th_.
I shall never have a better opportunity to make public declaration of my love for the English language.

I am glad that American history runs, chapter for chapter, the way it does; for thus America came to be the country I love so dearly.

I am glad, most of all, that the Americans began by being Englishmen, for thus did I come to inherit this beautiful language in which I think.