This time next year Wallingham will be sucking his thumbs and thinking of something else.
No, it's not a thing to worry about politically, for it won't come through." The squire's words suggested so much relief in that conviction that Farquharson, sharp on the flair of the experienced nose for waverers, looked at him observantly.
"I'm not so sure It's a doctrine with a fine practical application for them as well as for us, if they can be got to see it, and they're bound to see it in time.

It's a thing I never expected to live to believe, never thought would be practicable until lately, but now I think there's a very good chance of it.

And, hang it all," he added, "it may be unreasonable, but the more I notice the Yankees making propositions to get us away from it, the more I want to see it come through." "I have very much the same feeling," the squire acknowledged.

"I've been turning the matter over a good deal since that last Conference showed which way the wind was blowing.

And the fellows in your Government gave them a fine lead.