But it is all a question of shops, and if the shops abroad interfere with the shops at home, or if it is thought that they do, which comes to the same thing, then the shops at home put an end to the shops abroad.

Bah! they talk a great deal there in England, but, at the bottom of it, it is shop, shop, shop.

They talk of honour, and patriotism too, but they both give way to the shop.

And I tell you this, Frank Muller: it is the shop that has made the English, and it is the shop that will destroy them.

Well, so be it.