You yourself are an aristocrat.

Why should not I as well as you have sympathy and feeling for those who suffer ?" "I am a Russian," she reminded him, "and in Russia it is different.
Besides, I am no longer an aristocrat.

I am a citizeness of the world.
I have eschewed everything in life except one thing, and for that I have worked with all my heart and strength.

As for you, what have you done?
What is your record ?" "Insignificant, I fear," he admitted.

"You see, a very promising start at the Bar was somewhat interfered with by my brief period of soldiering." "At the present moment you have no definite career," she declared.