And if there's anything in the sentiment of the scheme," he added, "it shouldn't do any harm to have a good specimen of the English people advocating it.

Hesketh ought to be an object-lesson." "I wouldn't put too much faith in the object-lesson," said John Murchison.
"Neither would I," said Stella emphatically.

"Mister Alfred Hesketh may pass in an English crowd, but over here he's just an ignorant young man, and you'd better not have him talking with his mouth at any of your meetings.

Tell him to go and play with Walter Winter." "I heard he was asking at Volunteer Headquarters the other night," remarked Alec, "how long it would be before a man like himself, if he threw in his lot with the country, could expect to get nominated for a provincial seat." "What did they tell him ?" asked Mr Murchison, when they had finished their laugh.
"I heard they said it would depend a good deal on the size of the lot." "And a little on the size of the man," remarked Advena.
"He said he would be willing to take a seat in a Legislature and work up," Alec went on.

"Ontario for choice, because he thought the people of this Province more advanced." "There's a representative committee being formed to give the inhabitants of the poor-house a turkey dinner on Thanksgiving Day," said Advena.