He knew, from a true source, of Eglington's personal hatred of Claridge Pasha, though he did not guess their relationship; and all his interest was enlisted for the man who had, as he knew, urged Kate Heaver to marry himself--and Kate was his great ambition now.

Above and beyond these personal considerations was a real sense of England's duty to the man who was weaving the destiny of a new land.
"It isn't England's business ?" he retorted, in answer to an interjection from a faithful soul behind the ministerial Front Bench.

"Well, it wasn't the business of the Good Samaritan to help the man that had been robbed and left for dead by the wayside; but he did it.

As to David Claridge's work, some have said that--I've no doubt it's been said in the Cabinet, and it is the thing the Under-Secretary would say as naturally as he would flick a fly from his boots--that it's a generation too soon.

Who knows that?
I suppose there was those that thought John the Baptist was baptising too soon, that Luther preached too soon, and Savonarola was in too great a hurry, all because he met his death and his enemies triumphed--and Galileo and Hampden and Cromwell and John Howard were all too soon.