No, sir, the objection will not come from THAT side!" With a gentle smile and a deprecatory gesture the Count answered, "I am convinced that Miss Maddison is all--indeed, more than all--your eloquence has painted.

On the other hand, I trust that you will not be disappointed in my friend Tulliwuddle." Mr.Maddison crossed his legs and interlocked his fingers like a man about to air his views.

This, in fact, was what he proceeded to do.
"My opinion of aristocracies and the pampered individuals who compose them is the opinion of an intelligent and enlightened democrat.

I see them from the vantage-ground of a man who has made his own way in the world unhampered by ancestry, who has dwelt in a country fortunately unencumbered by such hindrances to progress, and who has no personal knowledge of their defects.

You will admit that I speak with unusual opportunities of forming a judgment ?" "You should have the impartiality of a missionary," said Bunker gravely.
"That is so, sir.