If the same law holds good in the United States, I leave you to settle whether Northerners or Southerners are the honester men." Whereupon (and no shame to Stangrave) there was a heavy quarrel, and the two men had not met since.
But now, those words of Thurnall's, backed by far bitterer ones of Marie's, were fretting Stangrave's heart .-- What if they were true?
They were not the whole truth.

There was beside, and above them all, a nobleness in the American heart, which could, if it chose, and when it chose, give the lie to that bitter taunt: but had it done so already?
At least he himself had not....

If Thurnall and Marie were unjust to his nation, they had not been unjust to him.

He, at least, had been making, all his life, mere outward blessings causes of self-congratulation, and not of humility.

He had been priding himself on wealth, ease, luxury, cultivation, without a thought that these were God's gifts, and that God would require an account of them.