The only original element was the feeling behind, which was plainly part of him; speculation instantly clamoured as to how far this was purely temperamental and how far the result of painful contact.

He himself, he said, though later of the Western States, had been born under the British flag of British parents--though his mother was an Irishwoman she came from loyal Ulster--and he repeated the statement as if it in some way justified his attitude towards his fellow countrymen and excused his truculence in the ear of a servant of the empire which he had the humour to abuse.

I heard him, I confess, with impatience, it was all so shabby and shallow, but I heard him out, and I was rewarded; he came for an illustration in the end to Simla.

'Look,' he said, 'at what they call their "Government House list"; and look at Strobo, Signor Strobo.

Isn't Strobo a man of intelligence, isn't he a man of benevolence?
He gave ten thousand rupees last week to the famine fund.