14/42 The field took breath with the heroes; and presume not to doubt that heroes they are. A Member of Parliament, Sir George Lowton, notes this emphatically, from the statesman's eminence, to a group of gentlemen on horseback round a carriage wherein a couple of fair ladies reclined. Now this is our peculiarity, this absence of extreme centralization. Local jealousies, local rivalries, local triumphs--these are the strength of the kingdom.' 'If you mean to say that cricket's a -- --' the old squire speaking (Squire Uplift of Fallow field) remembered the saving presences, and coughed--'good thing, I'm one with ye, Sir George. |