The High Commissioner is a very useful fellow to live in London and look after the ornamental, the sentimental, and immigration--nobody could do it better than Selkirk.

And in England, of course, they like that kind of agency.

It's the good old dignified way; but it won't do for everything.

You don't find our friend Morgan operating through the American equivalent of a High Commissioner." "No, you don't," said John Murchison.
"He goes over there as a principal, and the British Government, if he wants to deal with it, is only another principal.

That's the way our deputation will go.