He's such a queer child; he has a lingering belief in the House of Lords!" "Now I wonder how she gets at that ?" mused Brother Bonaday when he reported the saying to Copas.
"Very simply we shall find; but you must give me a minute or so to think it out." "To be sure, with her American up-bringing there might naturally grow an instinctive disrespect for the hereditary principle." "I have not observed that disrespect in Americans," answered Brother Copas dryly.

"But we'll credit it to them if you will; and there at once you have a capital reason why our little Miss Bull should worship the House of Lords as a fetish--whereas, it appears, she doesn't." "It's the queerer because, when it comes to the King, she worships the 'accident of birth,' as you might call it.

To her King Edward is nothing less than the Lord's Anointed." "Quite so.

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