"Foreigner, Miss Effingham!And why a foreigner?" "Nay, you know your own pretended cosmopolitism; and ought not the cousin of Captain Ducie to be an Englishman?" "I shall not answer for the ought, the simple fact being a sufficient reply to the question.

Our cosmopolitism is already forgotten, and with it, I fear, our frankness.

" "And very justlybut" "But, what, Miss Effinghamthere is, in all this, a slight return to the cosmopolitism, that reminds me of our days of peril and adventure.

" "To own the truth, I was never quite certain, until my last visit to England, on which side of the Atlantic I was actually born, and to this uncertainty, perhaps, may be attributed some of that cosmopolitism to which I made so many high pretensions in our late passage.

What indeed entitles either Madame de Sevigne or Rahel to fame, but their very nationalitythat intensely local style of language and feeling which clothes their genius with a living body instead of leaving it in the abstractions of a dreary cosmopolitism?