Whether the treatment was free from exaggeration, it is not my province to say.

I only know what I attempted to do.

The sense produced by the contact of the outer life with a refined, and perhaps overrefined, and sensitive, not to say meticulous, civilisation, is always more sensational than the touch of the representative of "the thousand years" with the wide, loosely organised free life of what is still somewhat hesitatingly called the Colonies, though the same remark could be applied to all new lands, such as the United States.

The representative of the older life makes no signs, or makes little collision at any rate, when he touches the new social organisms of the outer circle.

He is not emphatic; he is typical, but not individual; he seeks seclusion in the mass.