I have often thought that the King must have disliked him rather more than he disliked the men who were in arms against him; they at least cared, one way or the other.

I fancy that old chap would have a great many imitators nowadays, though, when it came to be a question of sport against soldiering.

I don't know whether anyone has said it, but one might almost assert that the German victory was won on the golf-links of Britain." "I don't see why you should saddle one particular form of sport with a special responsibility," protested Cicely.
"Of course not," said Yeovil, "except that it absorbed perhaps more of the energy and attention of the leisured class than other sports did, and in this country the leisured class was the only bulwark we had against official indifference.

The working classes had a big share of the apathy, and, indirectly, a greater share of the responsibility, because the voting power was in their hands.

They had not the leisure, however, to sit down and think clearly what the danger was; their own industrial warfare was more real to them than anything that was threatening from the nation that they only knew from samples of German clerks and German waiters." "In any case," said Cicely, "as regards the hunting, there is no Civil War or national war raging just now, and there is no immediate likelihood of one.