"What do you know about the people? and what does she, for that matter?"
"She knows a great deal, and I know enough to feel that she's a kind of emanation of the great democracy—of the continent, the country, the nation.I don't say that she sums it all up, that would be too much to ask of her. But she suggests it; she vividly昀gures it."
"You like her then for patriotic reasons. I'm afraid it is on those very grounds I object to her."