But probably he's a bank-clerk from Melbourne....

Your romanticism is one vast self-delusion, and it blinds your eye to the real thing.

We have got to clear it out, and with it all the damnable humbug of the Kelt." Mr.McCunn, who spelt the word with a soft "C," was puzzled.

"I thought a kelt was a kind of a no-weel fish," he interposed.
But the other, in the flood-tide of his argument, ignored the interruption.

"That's the value of the war," he went on.