Certainly it is a mere perversity--lost time--lost motion, lost everything--to cherish a dislike and a distrust of them--a thing that I cannot wholly understand.

While we are, I fear, going to have trade troubles and controversies, my feeling is, on the whole, in spite of the attitude of our official life, that an increasing number of our people are waking up to what England has done and is and may be depended on to do.

Isn't that true?
We've no news here.

We see nobody who knows anything.

I am far from strong--the old stomach got tired and I must gradually coax it back to work.