she might have married any number of grammarless gentlemen, personally unknown to her, whose fervent proposals almost every mail brought in; and besides these, there were many others, more orthodox in their wooing, some of whom were genuinely in love with Margaret Hugonin, and someI grieve to admit itwho were genuinely in love with her money; and she would have none of them.

It was a new language, a grammarless tongue, almost wholly stripped of its inflections.