It is in your blood and temperament and way of saying things.

But it's a high art and must be laboriously cultivated.
Yours affectionately, W.H.P.
This glimpse of a changing and chastened England appears in a letter of this period: * * * * * The disposition shown by an endless number of such incidents is something more than a disposition of gratitude of a people helped when they are hard pressed.

All these things show the changed and changing Englishman.

It has already come to him that he may be weaker than he had thought himself and that he may need friends more than he had once imagined; and, if he must have helpers and friends, he'd rather have his own kinsmen.

He's a queer "cuss," this Englishman.