'If she wink, &c.' Well, I don't generally sympathise with the boasting mania of my countrymen, but it's so much in the blood that, even with _me_, it exceeds now and then, you observe.

Ask him to be as gentle with me as possible.
Oh, the East, the East! My husband has been almost frantic on the subject.

We may all cover our heads and be humble.[40] Verily we have sinned deeply.

As to ministers, that there is blame I do not doubt.

The Aberdeen element has done its worst, but our misfortune is that nobody is responsible; and that if you tear up Mr.So-and-so and Lord So-and-so limb from limb, as a mild politician recommended the other day, you probably would do a gross injustice against very well-meaning persons.
It's the system, the system which is all one gangrene; the most corrupt system in Europe, is it not?
Here is my comfort.