I am sorry to hear it, dear.

Sam, this country is so beautiful, so highly cultivated, so adorned by nature and art, and contains so much comfort and happiness, that it resembles almost the garden of Eden.

But, Sam, the Serpent is here, the Serpent is here beyond a doubt.

It changes its shape, and alters its name, and takes a new colour, but still it is the Serpent, and it ought to be crushed.

Sometimes it calls itself liberal, then radical, then chartist, then agitator, then repealer, then political dissenter, then anti-corn leaguer, and so on.