[Mr. Standfast by John Buchan]@TWC D-Link bookMr. Standfast CHAPTER TWO 47/52
I was trying to assimilate the new Blenkiron, and drinking in the comfort of his heavenly drawl, and I was puzzling my head about Ivery.
I had a ridiculous notion that I had seen him before, but, delve as I might into my memory, I couldn't place him.
He was the incarnation of the commonplace, a comfortable middle-class sentimentalist, who patronized pacificism out of vanity, but was very careful not to dip his hands too far.
He was always damping down Blenkiron's volcanic utterances.
'Of course, as you know, the other side have an argument which I find rather hard to meet ...' 'I can sympathize with patriotism, and even with jingoism, in certain moods, but I always come back to this difficulty.' 'Our opponents are not ill-meaning so much as ill-judging,'-- these were the sort of sentences he kept throwing in. And he was full of quotations from private conversations he had had with every sort of person--including members of the Government.
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