I believe the steam tractor comes next week.

The Squire has been employing some new lawyers to find out if he can't stop it somehow.

And each time he sees them he comes home madder than before.
'Of course it all comes from a passionate antagonism to the war.
He is not a pacifist exactly--he is not a conscientious objector.

He is just an individualist gone mad--an egotistical, hot-tempered man, with all the ideas of the old _regime_, who thinks he can fight the world.

I am often really sorry for him--he is so preposterous.