England never had a finer lot of folk than these.

And you see them everywhere.

The art of living sanely they have developed to as high a level, I think, as you will find at any time in any land.
The present political battle is fiercer than you would ever guess.
The Lords feel that they are sure to be robbed: they see the end of the ordered world.

Chaos and confiscation lie before them.

Yet that, too, has nearly always been so.