A branch of the other family had become great--great enough, at least, to marry into his; and the name of the navigator, crowned with glory, was, very naturally, to become so the fashion among them that some son, of every generation, was appointed to wear it.

My point is, at any rate, that I recall noticing at the time how the Prince was, from the start, helped with the dear Ververs by his wearing it.
The connection became romantic for Maggie the moment she took it in; she filled out, in a flash, every link that might be vague.

'By that sign,' I quite said to myself, 'he'll conquer'-- with his good fortune, of course, of having the other necessary signs too.

It really," said Mrs.
Assingham, "was, practically, the fine side of the wedge.

Which struck me as also," she wound up, "a lovely note for the candour of the Ververs." The Colonel took in the tale, but his comment was prosaic.