And what if he's a small one and a trifle squeaky; so 's a prince when the attendant dignitaries receive him submissively and hear him informing the nation of his advent.

It 's the idea that 's grand.' 'The idea is everything in military affairs,' a solemn dupe, a Mr.
Rumford, partly bald, of benevolent aspect, and looking more copious than his flow, observed to the lady beside him.

'The flag is only an idea.' She protested against the barbarism of war, and he agreed with her, but thought it must be: it had always been: he deplored the fatality.
Nevertheless, he esteemed our soldiers, our sailors too.

A city man himself and a man of peace, he cordially esteemed and hailed the victories of a military body whose idea was Duty instead of Ambition.
'One thing,' said Mrs.Dyke, evading the ambiguous fife, 'patriotic as I am, I hope, one thing I confess; I never have yet brought myself to venerate thoroughly our Royal Standard.

I dare say it is because I do not understand it.' A strong fraternal impulse moved Mr.Rumford to lean forward and show her the face of one who had long been harassed by the same incapacity to digest that one thing.