They can't face the meanwhile--that's what it comes to." "Fine old crop of catchwords in that situation," Mr Williams remarked; and his eye had the spark of the practical politician.

"Can't you hear 'em at it, eh ?" "It scares them out of everything but hand-to-mouth politics.

Any other remedy is too heroic.

They go on pointing out and contemplating and grieving, with their percentages of misery and degeneration; and they go on poulticing the cancer with benevolence--there are people over there who want the State to feed the schoolchildren! Oh, they're kind, good, big-hearted people; and they've got the idea that if they can only give enough away everything will come right.

I was talking with a man one day, and I asked him whether the existence of any class justified governing a great country on the principle of an almshouse.