What noble sentiments!
CHARLOTTE
Let my brother set out where he will in the fields of conversation, he is sure to end his tour in the temple of gravity.
MANLY
Forgive me, my sister. I love my country; it has its foibles undoubtedly;—some foreigners will with pleasure remark them—but such remarks fall very ungracefully from the lips of her citizens.
DIMPLE
You are perfectly in the right, Colonel—America has her faults.
MANLY
Yes, Sir; and we, her children, should blush for them in private, and endeavour, as individuals, to reform them. But, if our country has its errors in common with other countries, I am proud to say America—I mean the United States—has displayed virtues and achievements which modern nations may admire, but of which they have seldom set us the example.