Two or three fellows in my year went over there and aren't making half a bad thing of it." "Oh, come," said Lorne, half-swinging round upon the other, with his hands in his pockets, "it isn't exactly the time, is it, to talk about chucking the Empire ?" "Well, no, it isn't," Hesketh admitted.

"One might do better to wait, I dare say.

At all events, till we see what the country says to Wallingham." They walked on for a moment or two in silence; then Lorne broke out again.
"I suppose it's unreasonable, but there's nothing I hate so much as to hear Englishmen talk of settling in the United States." "It's risky, I admit.

And I've never heard anybody yet say it was comfortable." "In a few years, fifty maybe, it won't matter.

Things will have taken their direction by then; but now it's a question of the lead.