"It's rotten bad form." "Oh, form! I may be mad, but one seems to see in politics over here a lack of definition and purpose, a tendency to cling to the abstract and to precedent--'the mainstay of the mandarin' one of the papers calls it; that's a good word--that give one the feeling that this kingdom is beginning to be aware of some influence stronger than its own.

It lies, of course, in the great West, where the corn and the cattle grow; and between Winnipeg and Chicago choose quickly, England!" His companion laughed.

"Oh, I'm with you," he said, "but you take a pessimistic view of this country, Murchison." "It depends on what you call pessimism," Lorne rejoined.

"I see England down the future the heart of the Empire, the conscience of the world.
and the Mecca of the race.".