The landing caused an extension of operations--and here we are, with the country upon our hands.

At the time of trouble we begged and implored the French, or any one else, to come and help us to put the thing to rights, but they all deserted us when there was work to be done, although they are ready enough to scold and to impede us now.
When we tried to get out of it, up came this wild Dervish movement, and we had to sit tighter than ever.

We never wanted the task; but, now that it has come, we must put it through in a workmanlike manner.
We've brought justice into the country, and purity of administration, and protection for the poor man.

It has made more advance in the last twelve years than since the Moslem invasion in the seventh century.
Except the pay of a couple of hundred men, who spend their money in the country, England has neither directly nor indirectly made a shilling out of it, and I don't believe you will find in history a more successful and more disinterested bit of work." Headingly puffed thoughtfully at his cigarette.
"There is a house near ours, down on the Back Bay at Boston, which just ruins the whole prospect," said he.

"It has old chairs littered about the stoop, and the shingles are loose, and the garden runs wild; but I don't know that the neighbours are exactly justified in rushing in, and stamping around, and running the thing on their own lines." "Not if it were on fire ?" asked the Colonel.
Headingly laughed, and rose from his camp-stool.
"Well, it doesn't come within the provisions of the Monroe Doctrine, Colonel," said he.