It was a league of all knights for the remains of all knighthood, of all brotherhood in arms or in arts, against that which is and has been radically unknightly and radically unbrotherly from the beginning.

Much was to happen after--murder and flaming folly and madness in earth and sea and sky; but all men knew in their hearts that the third Prussian thrust had failed, and Christendom was delivered once more.

The empire of blood and iron rolled slowly back towards the darkness of the northern forests; and the great nations of the West went forward; where side by side as after a long lover's quarrel, went the ensigns of St.
Denys and St.George.
_NOTE ON THE WORD "ENGLISH"_ _The words "England" and "English" as used here require a word of explanation, if only to anticipate the ire of the inevitable Scot.

To begin with, the word "British" involves a similar awkwardness.

I have tried to use it in the one or two cases that referred to such things as military glory and unity: though I am sure I have failed of full consistency in so complex a matter.