Now I understand how it is that they form a great nation.
It is merely because they stand and let you thump them until you are tired, and then they proceed to do what they intended to do from the first." "That is because we know that he who jumps about most actively will be the first to feel fatigue, Marquis," laughed Colville, pleasantly.

"But you must not judge all England from these eastern people.

It is here that you will find the concentrated essence of British tenacity and stolidity--the leaven that leavens the whole." "Then it is our misfortune to have to deal with these concentrated English--that is all." The Marquis shrugged his shoulders with that light despair which is incomprehensible to any but men of Latin race.
"No, Marquis! there you are wrong," corrected Dormer Colville, with a sudden gravity, "for we have in Captain Clubbe the very man we want--one of the hardest to find in this chattering world--a man who will not say too much.

If we can only make him say what we want him to say he will not ruin all by saying more.

It is so much easier to say a word too much than a word too little.