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John and his placid breadth of Englishism; but when she finally found out that to be impossible her tears were soon dried by the prospect of Paul Emanuel, so unlike him, coming into his place."
And this is the moment, when Englishism pure and simple, which with all its fine qualities managed always to make itself singularly unattractive, is losing that imperturbable faith in its untransformed self which at any rate made it imposing, this is the moment when our great organ tells the Celts that everything of theirs not English is 'simply a foolish interference with the natural progress of civilisation and prosperity; and poor Talhaiarn, venturing to remonstrate, is commanded 'to drop his outlandish title, and to refuse even to talk Welsh in Wales!
Here, as in many other respects, Victoria is the most pronounced example of what may be called Australianism as opposed to Englishism. There are very few members of her parliament who can claim to possess any real political talent.
She was brighter than she had been for days so that Molly confided to Polly: "She seems more like us." "I'm beginning to like her real well," admitted Polly. "She isn't so stiff as she was at first." "I suppose her Englishism is wearing off," returned Molly.
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