'Is it no compliment to you and your institutions this ?' sais you.

'Don't it make you feel proud that even independence won't tempt us to dissolve the connexion?
Ain't it a noble proof of your good qualities that, instead of agitatin' for Repeal of the Union, we want a closer union?
But have we no pride too?
We would be onworthy of the name of Englishmen, if we hadn't it, and we won't stand beggin' for ever I tell _you_.

Here's our hands, give us yourn; let's be all Englishmen together.

Give us a chance, and if us, young English boys, don't astonish you old English, my name ain't Tom Poker, that's all.' 'Sit down,' he'll say, 'Mr.Poker;' there is a great deal in that; sit down; I am interested.' "The instant he sais that, take your ruler, lay it down on the table, pick up your hat, make a scrape with your hind leg, and say, 'I regret I have detained you so long, Sir.

I am most peskily afraid my warmth has kinder betrayed me into rudeness.