He asked me who the almsgivers ought to be, in any country.

Of course it was tampering with my figure--in an almshouse there aren't any; but that's the way it presents itself to the best of them.

Another fellow was frantic at the idea of a tax on foreign food--he nearly cried--but would be very glad to see the Government do more to assist emigration to the colonies.

I tried to show him it would be better to make it profitable to emigrate first, but I couldn't make him see it.
"Oh, and there's the old thing against them, of course--the handling of imperial and local affairs by one body.

Anybody's good enough to attend to the Baghdad Railway, and nobody's too good to attend to the town pump.