. Three Vassar girls in the Tyrol. s-trian, and her home is at Inns-bruck in the Tyrol, miles awayfrom the Netherlands. I merely used the term Dutch as typical of the entireGermanic race, my dear. I feelas Caesar did, — that whetherthey were Belgians, Helvetians,or Rhaetians does nt particularlymatter; they are all barbarians. Oh, Dorothy ! Say un-American, if the otherword offends you. Their lifeand thought and aims are all sodifferent from ours; and Valerieis a countess, or at least her fa- DOROTHY. ther is a count, and I despise thatsort of thing. It is entirely contrary to our republican i
. Three Vassar girls in the Tyrol. s-trian, and her home is at Inns-bruck in the Tyrol, miles awayfrom the Netherlands. I merely used the term Dutch as typical of the entireGermanic race, my dear. I feelas Caesar did, — that whetherthey were Belgians, Helvetians,or Rhaetians does nt particularlymatter; they are all barbarians. Oh, Dorothy ! Say un-American, if the otherword offends you. Their lifeand thought and aims are all sodifferent from ours; and Valerieis a countess, or at least her fa- DOROTHY. ther is a count, and I despise thatsort of thing. It is entirely contrary to our republican institutions. But it is not Valeries fault that her father is the Count vonHohenberg; I am sure we would never have known the fact fromher. She has done her best to become American by accompany-ing her father on his diplomatic mission to this country, and sheshows her appreciation of our institutions by choosing to be educatedat Vassar instead of in an Austrian convent. All this was unanswerable ; and Dorothy was obliged to admit. THE THREE FRIENDS. 13 that Valerie took great pains to become American, and that shehad so far conquered the difficulties of the foreign language that herEnglish was scrupulously correct, almost bookish, displaying only by aslight accent and occasional mispronunciation that it was an acquiredlanguage. Dorothys paraded disdain for titles had for its root a littlefeeling of envy, and she fancied Valerie arrogant because in Valeriesplace she would herself have been so. Dorothy was just enough toadmit many excellencies in Valerie. She shone especially in composi-tion ; her essays were models of rhetoric, being remarkable for theirgraceful style and a purity of language marked by an absence of com-monplace expressions. It was English learned from reading the bestauthors, and not the conversational English of the day. Dorothywas also a fine essayist. Her productions were distinguished byoriginality of conception and a brilliant way of putting things. Shesh
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