" I suppose," Lady Blanche said to her brother, when the
others had passed out of hearing, "that it is their belief in
themselves which gives them the bearing of princes."

"And the odd thing about it," Lord Conyngham replied,



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^' is that they never do or say anything that looks like boast-
ing. They assume their nobility as matter of course. They
are curious people, the Americans. I am every day more
eager to understand them. I have had men who toadied to
me until I could have kicked them into the kennel," he added
to his sister Blanche ; '^but, in the case of young Harris, if
there is to be any toadying, by Jove 1 it is J" who must do it.
He is a modest fellow, and yet you feel toward him as if he
were a royal duke."



CHAPTER X.
GEOB6E HABBIS BBEAKS HIS SILENCE.
