"
"Mr. Graham is right," said the major impressively. "The South
produces the finest women in the world; and when the North comes to
meet its men, as I fear it must, it will find they are their mothers'
sons."
"Poor Warren!" cried Grace; "here are all three of us against you--all
pro-slavery and Southern in our sympathies."
"I admit at once that the South has produced THE finest woman in the
world," said Hilland, taking his wife's hand. "But I must add that
many of her present productions are not at all to my taste; nor will
they be to yours, Graham, after you have been here long enough to
understand what is going on--that is, if anything at home can enlist
your interest."
"I assure you I am deeply interested. It's exhilarating to breathe
American air now, especially so after just coming from regions where
everything has been dead for centuries; for the people living there
now are scarcely alive. Of course I obtained from the papers in Egypt
very vague ideas of what was going on; and after receiving your letter
my mind was too preoccupied with my aunt's illness to dwell on much
besides. If the flag which gave me protection abroad, and under which
I was born, is assailed, I shall certainly fight for it, even though I
may not be in sympathy with the causes which led to the quarrel.
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