It is they who watch by the Rhine for us, patient and awake.

Should they beckon us one night, on some peaceful August night like this, when all seems so tranquil, so secure, we shall go.

The silent beckoning finger will be obeyed from one end of the land to the other, from Poland on the east to France on the west." He turned away quickly.
"It does not bear thinking of," he said; "and yet there are many, oh, so many, who night and day concern themselves with nothing else.

Let us be English again, and not think of anything serious or unpleasant.

Already, as you know, I am half English; there is something to build upon.