Would that I were equally familiar with all nations, for I know less of Russia than I know of Scotland.

We in Germany are their near neighbours, and love them, as you do here, something less than ourselves." He talked English with that pleasing sincerity which seems inseparable from the speech of foreigners, who use a purer and more formal idiom than ourselves.

George looked anxiously towards Lewis, with a question in his eyes, but finding his companion abstracted, he spoke himself.
"I have just arrived," said the other simply; "but it was from a different direction.

I have been shooting in the hills, getting cool air into my lungs after the valleys.

Why, Mrs.Logan, I have been down to Rawal Pindi since I saw you last, and have been choked with the sun.
We northerners do not take kindly to glare and dust." "But you are an old hand here, they tell me.