Who would rid the country of a Government that could neither make peace nor make war ?--that foresaw nothing--that was making life unbearable at home, by a network of senseless restrictions, while it wasted millions abroad, and in the military camps! The Labour Party were the only people with a grain of sense.
They at least would try to make peace.

Only, when they had made it, to be governed by them would be even worse than to be governed by Lloyd George.

There was no possible life anywhere for decent quiet people.

And as for the ravaging and ruin of the woods that was going on all over England-- 'The submarine return is worse this week,' said Elizabeth in a low voice.
She had gone to her own table and was sitting there till the hurricane should pass over.

There was in her a fresh and chafing sense of the obstacles laid in her path--the path of the scientific and successful organizer--by the Squire's perversities.