You see they may be aggravating folk sometimes, but after all they are our _own_ folk, and we can't wipe that off the slate." "_Eh bien!_" said the Frenchman.

"At least I can say to you what I could not without offence say to these others.

And I repeat that there _are_ no Dervishes.

They were an invention of Lord Cromer in the year 1885." "You don't say!" cried Headingly.
"It is well known in Paris, and has been exposed in _La Patrie_ and other of our so well-informed papers." "Hut this is colossal," said Headingly.

"Do you mean to tell me, Monsieur Fardet, that the siege of Khartoum and the death of Gordon and the rest of it was just one great bluff ?" "I will not deny that there was an emeute, but it was local, you understand, and now long forgotten.