'I have got all of them, only except Princess Mary,' an old woman said to me last week, and she nearly cried with pleasure when I brought her an old Bystander portrait that filled the gap in her collection.

And on Queen Alexandra's day they bring out and wear the faded wild-rose favours that they bought with their pennies in days gone by." "The tragedy of the enactment that is about to enforce military service on these people is that it comes when they've no longer a country to fight for," said Yeovil.
The young clergyman gave an exclamation of bitter impatience.
"That is the cruel mockery of the whole thing.

Every now and then in the course of my work I have come across lads who were really drifting to the bad through the good qualities in them.

A clean combative strain in their blood, and a natural turn for adventure, made the ordinary anaemic routine of shop or warehouse or factory almost unbearable for them.

What splendid little soldiers they would have made, and how grandly the discipline of a military training would have steadied them in after-life when steadiness was wanted.