“Oh, yes, he was--just as nice every bit; though we English people think that word nice of yours is so very queer. You have heard, haven't you”--for Miss Aliyn was quite willing to change the subject--“of the Englishman who said to a young girl whom he met on the steamer, 'You Americans use _nice_ so much, I think it's a nasty word;' and of how she turned and archly said, 'And do you think _nasty_ is a nice word?'”