He is there, and he is endured so long as he does not bother any one.
"There are three factors against which the old General has had to fight all his life long--against well-meaning hesitation, against hard-hearted egoism, and against the idle indifference born of ignorance.

And these three streams that have flowed against him in every part of the world have not been able to hold him back.

To those who think he has only become an important man, and to those who measure a man's worth by the outer honours he gains, he became a man of importance when London made him a citizen and Oxford an honorary Doctor.

And now men are better inclined to excuse in his case the curious title of General of a curious Army.
"I have often heard the grey-headed General in Public Meetings.

For the first time on Saturday evening I got near to him in a more private way.