However, I'd advise him to marry into some fresh, new strain--" "He seems likely to," said Virginia.
After a moment Malcourt looked around at her curiously.
"Do you mean Shiela Cardross ?" "Obviously." "You think it safe ?"--mockingly.
"I wouldn't care if I were a man." "Oh! I didn't suppose that a Suydam could approve of her." "I do now--with envy....

You are right about the West.

Do you know that it seems to me as though in that girl all sections of the land were merged, as though the freshest blood of all nations flowing through the land had centred and mingled to produce that type of physical perfection! It is a curious idea--isn't it, Louis ?--to imagine that the brightest, wholesomest, freshest blood of the nations within this nation has combined to produce such a type! Suppose it were so.

After all is it not worth dispensing with a few worn names to look out at the world through those fearless magnificent eyes of hers--to walk the world with such limbs and such a body?
Did you ever see such self-possession, such superb capacity for good and evil, such quality and texture!...

Oh, yes, I am quite crazy about her--like everybody and John Garret Hamil, third." "Is he ?" She laughed.