I'm not a prejudiced man in political matters, and Cromwell is a long time dead.

If you choose to proclaim yourself a regicide, I shan't quarrel with you.

All I want you to understand is that you can't have it both ways.

No man can quote Oliver Cromwell with approval and still go on calling himself a loyalist." "All the same, you may be mistaken about Miss King." "I may," said Meldon; "any man may be mistaken, unless he happens to be a Pope, who of course never is, _ex officio_; but as a matter of fact I very seldom am, and in this particular case I'm demonstrably right." "Well, don't air your theory to the judge; that's all I care about." "Not being a perfect fool, I won't.

I have a considerable natural talent for diplomacy, as I daresay you've observed, and I'm not the least likely to start off by putting up that judge's back.