"I don't suppose that you're going to undertake to persuade me that you're an American," she said.
"To please you I'll be an Englishman, I'll be a Turk!" "Well, if you can change about that way you're very welcome," Miss Stackpole returned.
"I'm sure you understand everything and that differences of nationality are no barrier to you," Ralph went on.
Miss Stackpole gazed at him still.

"Do you mean the foreign languages ?" "The languages are nothing.

I mean the spirit--the genius." "I'm not sure that I understand you," said the correspondent of the Interviewer; "but I expect I shall before I leave." "He's what's called a cosmopolite," Isabel suggested.
"That means he's a little of everything and not much of any.

I must say I think patriotism is like charity--it begins at home." "Ah, but where does home begin, Miss Stackpole ?" Ralph enquired.
"I don't know where it begins, but I know where it ends.

It ended a long time before I got here." "Don't you like it over here ?" asked Mr.Touchett with his aged, innocent voice.
"Well, sir, I haven't quite made up my mind what ground I shall take.
I feel a good deal cramped.