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He would have liked, of course, to have taken Tom home in a bucket. He would not have put him in spirits. Of course not. But what would all the learned men say to him after his speech at the British Association? And what would Ellie say, after what he had just told her?
He declared that 'he knew the Americans well; that they never would be subdued by arms; but that obedience would be secured by doing them justice. A man with these views was not a fit instrument for the British Government, and therefore, agreeably to his own request, he was permitted to remain at home."
On this latter point several of the guests expressed their ideas and one of the most shocked and outspoken was Colonel House. For a month the President's personal representative had been discussing with British statesmen possible openings for mediation, but all his hopes in this direction now vanished. That President Wilson would act with the utmost energy Colonel House took for granted.
Marion asked her in what respects was he better than other British officers. "Better than other British officers!" replied the old lady. "Lord bless your dear soul, general Marion! Well, come along, come along with me, and I'll let you see."
This number includes 80,000 engaged in the lumbering business the largest number engaged in any one trade. Lumbering is carried on in Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, and the annual value of the product is over one hundred million dollars a value only exceeded by the food products of the Dominion. More important than all other industries put together is farming.
This was so totally at variance with his usual practice that, as I have already explained to some of you, there could only be one reason for it, and that reason, I have never had the slightest doubt, was that he had formed a plan to betray us all into the hands of the British.
At the close of the nineteenth century Russia was regarded as the supreme menace to world peace. Her expansion to the south of Siberia threatened British power in India; her railway developments to the Pacific threatened Japan. She struggled for a dominating place in the councils of China and was believed to have cast an ambitious eye on Korea.
At length a British officer succeeded in dragging two mountain howitzers up the cliffs to a position from which Nanny Town, the inaccessible Maroon stronghold, could be shelled.
In vain did Joseph and Jourdan bring up troops from the centre; the British and Spaniards were not to be driven either from the village or from the heights.
Yet the Englishwoman's smile was kind and she had lost her husband.... And Peggy, looking at this girl with the dark, tragic eyes and refined, pale face and graceful gestures, in the funny instinctive British way tried to place her socially. Was she a lady? It made such a difference.
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