And yet the feelings ARE there, and not the less healthy and genuine that they are not made the subject of exhibition to others.
It was not a little characteristic of the ancient Germans, that the more social and demonstrative peoples by whom they were surrounded should have characterised them as the NIEMEC, or Dumb men.

And the same designation might equally apply to the modern English, as compared, for example, with their nimbler, more communicative and vocal, and in all respects more social neighbours, the modern French and Irish.
But there is one characteristic which marks the English people, as it did the races from which they have mainly sprung, and that is their intense love of Home.

Give the Englishman a home, and he is comparatively indifferent to society.

For the sake of a holding which he can call his own, he will cross the seas, plant himself on the prairie or amidst the primeval forest, and make for himself a home.

The solitude of the wilderness has no fears for him; the society of his wife and family is sufficient, and he cares for no other.