I never get an answer to these requests.

But the Department continues to send the telegrams! We confessedly have no case here; and this method can produce nothing but irritation.
I could extend this list to 100 examples--of mere lawyer-like methods--mere useless technicalities and objections which it is obvious in the beginning cannot be maintained.

A similar method is now going on about cotton.

Now this is not the way Sir Edward Grey takes up business.

It's not the way I've done business all my life, nor that you have, nor other frank men who mean what they say and do not say things they do not mean.