To be perfectly frank with you, now, what other nation in the world is there, except yours, which is obeying the conventions strictly?
I tell you frankly, we keep our eye on Japan, and we build a good many commercial ships which would astonish you if you examined them thoroughly.

Our National Guard, too, know a bit more about soldiering than their grandfathers.

You people, on the other hand, seem to have become infatuated pacifists.

I can't tell tales out of school, but I don't like the way things are going on eastwards.

Asia means something different now that that amazing fellow, Prince Shan, has made a great nation of China." "I am entirely in accord with you," Nigel agreed, "but what is one to do about it?
Our present Government has a big majority, trade at home and abroad is prosperous, the income tax is down to a shilling in the pound and looks like being wiped out altogether.