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"The more people that know it, the better," Newman declared. "I haven't yet announced it here, but I telegraphed it this morning to America." "Telegraphed it to America?" the old lady murmured. "To New York, to St. Louis, and to San Francisco; those are the principal cities, you know. To-morrow I shall tell my friends here."
Is it not just this: That we in America should feel highly favored in that we have such magnificent resources, and yet as sharply rebuked in that we are doing so little with them.
"Why hadn't you thought of that when you first came to me?" "I cannot tell. I didn't know that I could even get a passport for France till the other day." Both were silent while the painter filled his pipe. "Well," he said presently, "I'm very sorry. I'm afraid you're dooming yourself to many bitter disappointments in going to America. What do you expect to do there?" "Why, with my inventions"
"You were not born in America?" "Oh, no; I came from Bavaria." "At what age?" "I was twenty." "Did you go to America with your parents?" "No. I was alone." "You still have your permit to leave Bavaria?" "I believe so; I am not certain. I never thought in those days I should become rich enough to travel." The word that tingled with gold soothed the suspicious ear of the officer.
I imagine," he went on, "that the difference between your civilization and ours is only one of degree, after all, and that America and Altruria are really one at heart."
India has boasted certain eminent women whom America knows well. Ramabai with her work for widows is a household word in American homes and colleges; President Harrison's sentences of appreciation emphasized the distinction that already belonged to Lilavati Singh; Chandra Lela's search for God has passed into literature. The Sorabji sisters are known in the worlds of law, education, and medicine.
Then he looked about among his early friends who had married, as nearly all the young men of the middle classes in America do marry, for love, or what they believed to be love. There was Tom Somers a splendid lad, full of life, hope and ambition when he married Carrie Towne, the prettiest girl in Vandalia. Well, what was he now, after seven years?
'We have been cold and hungry sometimes; but not often; the neighbors are so kind; and when I am dead they will see that Nannine is made ready for America, with Jerrie; and the papers, and the diamonds, which I might have pawned when our need was greatest, but I could not.
The magazine was to have the highest literary quality and to be sufficiently dignified to attract the finest minds in America as contributors; its purpose was to exercise a profound influence in politics, literature, science, and art.
He said it was a kind of a kind of a vow all the French people had that the Germans didn't know anything about. And 'specially families that had men in the Franco-Prussian War. He told me how he escaped, too, and got to America, and about how he hit the German soldier that came to arrest you for singing the Marseillaise." The girl's face colored with anger, and yet with pride.
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