"Aye, marry, you may say it!

" "This is very strangequite unlooked forto marry Miss Van Cortlandt!

You is de only lady I 'd be satisfied ter marry after knowin' you.

" "This is very strangequite unlooked forto marry Miss Van Cortlandt!

And what is the result of all I have written, but thisEither marry, my dear, or get from them all, and from him too.

Austriae est Imperare Orbi Universo (Austria's it is to Rule the Universe) ran the device of that canny Frederick III., who, amid much adversity, laid the plans which prompted an equally striking epigram about his son and successor Maximilian, the "Last of the Knights"Bella gerant alii, tu, felix Austria, nube (Let others wage war; do thou marry, O fortunate Austria!).

" "This is very strangequite unlooked forto marry Miss Van Cortlandt!

I have thought it all over, considered it from every point of view, and have come to the conclusion thatthat, well, that we had better marry.