'Yes, on the whole; when they take to their work.
Intelligently certainly compared with our English.

We do not get the best of them in London.

For that matter, we do not get the best of the English--not the women of the north.

We have to put up with the rejected of other and better-paying departments of work.

It breaks my heart sometimes to see how near they are to doing well, but for such a little want of ballast.' 'If they're Irish,' said Patrick, excited by the breaking of her heart, 'a whisper of cajolery in season is often the secret.' Captain Con backed him for diplomacy.