"I love the country, too.

But when one comes back from abroad, and plunges into their daily life, it's difficult to retain the real figure of the old country seen from outside, and one has to remember half a dozen great names to right oneself.

And Englishmen are so funny! Your father comes here to see his old friend, and begins boasting of the Gippsland he has left behind.
Tinman immediately brags of Helvellyn, and they fling mountains at one another till, on their first evening together, there's earthquake and rupture--they were nearly at fisticuffs at one time." "Oh! surely no," said Annette.

"I did not hear them.

They were good friends when you came to the drawingroom.