But he was an undistinguished, very ordinary looking little man; and indeed he had done nothing for the past half century to distinguish himself above his fellows.

There are thousands of his type, masters of English country houses.

And of all the thousands, every one brought up against the stern issues of life would have acted like Anthony Fenimore.

I say "would have acted," but anyone who has lived in England during the war knows that they have so acted.

These incarnations of the commonplace, the object of the disdain, before the war, of the self-styled "intellectuals"-- if the war sweeps the insufferable term into oblivion it will have done some good--these honest unassuming gentlemen have responded heroically to the great appeal; and when the intellectuals have thought of their intellects or their skins, they have thought only of their duty.