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"And half-American just as you are, my child," put in her father encouragingly. "Nothing could be more suitable than " "I don't intend to marry anybody until I'm thirty at least, so that ends it, daddy, I mean, your poor old highness." "Naturally we do not expect you to be married before you are out of short frocks, my dear," said Prince Dantan stiffly. "But a betrothal is quite another thing.
I trust the second will be even more distinguished and more prolonged. The remarkable thing is that he has done all this when, unless appearances very much belie him, he has not reached the age of sixty-four, which is the minimum age at which the politician ceases to be young." Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born thirty-two years ago, in November, 1874. By birth he is half-American.
A great cynic, a pure Christian and a man of parts a distant connection of the original family Gaston d'Héronac had known the world in his day; and after much sorrow had found a hermitage in his own village a consolation in the company of this half-French, half-American heiress, who had incorporated herself with the soil.
Of course, I know that I'm not exactly plain, and that the contrast between my eyes and hair is a little out of the common; so, as soon as I remembered that he hadn't seen me before, I guessed more or less what his almost startled look meant. Still, I suppose most girls anyway, half-French, half-American girls would have done exactly what I proceeded to do.
And a second afterwards came the half-American voice we had heard in our chambers more than once. It called out: "Happy to see you, gentlemen; pray come in." Out of a hole in an enormous dark egg-shaped thing, pendent in the branches like a wasps' nest, was protruding the pale face and fierce moustache of the lieutenant, his teeth shining with that slightly Southern air that belonged to him.
However, the meals were served in half-American fashion, and the rooms were tolerably comfortable. "Now," Ned said, after their first meal in Yokohama was over, "we did not come here to visit the palaces of the wealthy, or to inspect the United States consulate. We've got to get down into the slums a bit if we find what I want.
From the old half-French, half-American town caravans of explorers, trappers, and traders set out each spring for the Far Northwest, whence they returned annually with their loads of furs and their tales of the wonderful Oregon country.
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