I see a vision of a people surfeited with prosperity and freedom grown factious, so that now one party must command a strong majority ere they can pass a law the goodness of which no one denies.

I see a bankrupt exchequer, a drunken Governor, an Irish ministry, a----" "Come down out of that," roared the Major, "before I pull you down.
You're a pretty fellow to come out for a day's pleasure! Jeremiah was a saint to him," he added, turning appealingly to the rest of us.

"Hear my opinion, 'per contra,' Doctor.

I'll be as near right as you." "Go on, then," said the Doctor.
"I see," began the Major, "the Anglo-Saxon race--" "Don't forget the Irish, Jews, Germans, Chinese, and other barbarians," interrupted the Doctor.
"Asserting," continued the Major, scornfully, "as they always do, their right to all the unoccupied territories of the earth." ("Blackfellow's claims being ignored," interpolated the Doctor.) "And filling all the harbours of this magnificent country----" ("Want to see them.") "With their steamships and their sailing vessels.

Say there be gold here, as I believe there is, the time must come when the mines will be exhausted.