Nothing endures that is not harmonious.

It is because England is now out of harmony, that this seething is going on.

You and your race have been fitted for what you have held for hundreds of years; that is why you have stayed: and your influence, and such as you, have made England great." "Then how do you account for the whole thing being now out of joint ?" Lady Ethelrida asked.

"As my father and I and, as far as I know, numbers of us have remained just the same, and have tried as well as we can to do our duty to every one." "Have you ever studied the Laws of Lycurgus, Lady Ethelrida ?" he asked.
And she shook her sleek, fine head.

"Well, they are worth glancing at, when you have time," he went on.