There we have the turn of his mind, convertible into the language of bookkeeping, a balance struck, with the profit on the side of the flag, the patriotic equivalent in good sound terms of dollars and cents.

With this position understood, he was prepared to take you up on any point of comparison between the status and privileges of a subject and a citizen--the political MORALE of a monarchy and a republic--the advantage of life on this and the other side of the line.
There was nothing he liked better to expatiate upon, with that valuable proof of his own sincerity always at hand for reference and illustration.

His ideal was life in a practical, go-ahead, self-governing colony, far enough from England actually to be disabused of her inherited anachronisms and make your own tariff, near enough politically to keep your securities up by virtue of her protection.

He was extremely satisfied with his own country; one saw in his talk the phenomenon of patriotism in double bloom, flower within flower.

I have mentioned his side whiskers: he preserved that facial decoration of the Prince Consort; and the large steel engraving that represents Queen Victoria in a flowing habit and the Prince in a double-breasted frock coat and a stock, on horseback, hung over the mantelpiece in his drawing-room.