Nor are we smart, and the smart set (both American and English) find us uninteresting.

But we drive ahead and keep a philosophical temper and simply do the best we can, and, you may be sure, a good deal of it.

It _is_ laborious.

For instance, I've made two trips lately to speak before important bodies, one at Leeds, the other at Newcastle, at both of which, in different ways, I have tried to explain the President's principle in dealing with Central American turbulent states--and, incidentally, the American ideals of government.

The audiences see it, approve it, applaud it.
The newspaper editorial writers never quite go the length--it involves a denial of the divine right of the British Empire; at least they fear so.