His eye kindled and he talked freely on sport.

Was it not but a new token of his incurable levity?
Mr.Wishart, who had understood little of the talk, found in this young man strange stuff to shape to a politician's ends.
Contrasted with the gravity of Mr.Stocks, it was a schoolboy beside a master.
"I have been reading," he said slowly, "reading a speech of the new Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs.

I cannot understand the temper of mind which it illustrates.

He talks of the Bosnian war, and a brave people struggling for freedom, as if it were merely a move in some hideous diplomatists' game.

A man of that sort cannot understand a moral purpose." "Tommy--I mean to say Mr.Wratislaw--doesn't believe in Bosnian freedom, but you know he is a most ardent moralist." "I do not understand," said Mr.Wishart drily.
"I mean that personally he is a Puritan, a man who tries every action of his life by a moral standard.