He somewhat nervously placed his young friend in a bad light, with a table between him and his hearers.
Then Andrew began.
"The Society for Doing Without," he read, "has been tried and found wanting.

It has now been in existence for some years, and its members have worked zealously, though unostentatiously.
"I am far from saying a word against them.

They are patriots as true as ever petitioned against the Channel Tunnel." "No compliments," whispered the president, warningly.

Andrew hastily turned a page, and continued: "But what have they done?
Removed an individual here and there.

That is the extent of it.
"You have been pursuing a half-hearted policy.