He and his business had survived free trade--though he would not say this either--and he preferred to go on surviving it rather than take the chances of any zollverein.

The name of the thing was enough for him, a word made in Germany, thick and mucky, like their tumblers.

As to the colonies--Mr Chafe had been told of a certain spider who devoured her young ones.

He reversed the figure and it stood, in the imperial connection, for all the argument he wanted.
Alfred Hesketh had lived always in the hearing of such doctrine; it had stood to him for political gospel by mere force of repetition.

But he was young, with the curiosity and enterprise and impatience of dogma of youth; he belonged by temperament and situation to those plastic thousands in whom Wallingham hoped to find the leaven that should leaven the whole lump.