"And, at the same time, we encourage our butchers to be really butchers and to glory in it.

Law _and_ liberty, you see.

Absolute discipline and the cultivation of individualism.

No republican stew-pot, you see, in which everything tastes alike." (II) They had to wait a few minutes in an ante-room before presenting their letters, as the official was engaged, and Father Jervis occupied the time in running over again the names and histories of three or four important personages to whom they would perhaps have to speak.

He had given an outline of these at breakfast.
There were three in particular about whom Monsignor must be informed.
First, the King; and Monsignor learned again thoroughly of the sensational reaction which, after the humiliation of France in the war of 1914--the logical result of a conflict between a republicanism worked out to mediocrity and a real and vivid monarchy--had placed this man's father--the undoubted legitimate heir--upon the throne.