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When William Came

CHAPTER XII: THE TRAVELLING COMPANIONS
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I know many English of the country parts, and always they tell me they go to church once in each week to set the good example to the servants.

They were tired of their faith, but they were not virile enough to become real Pagans; their dancing fauns were good young men who tripped Morris dances and ate health foods and believed in a sort of Socialism which made for the greatest dulness of the greatest number.

You will find plenty of them still if you go into what remains of social London." Yeovil gave a grunt of acquiescence.
"They grew soft in their political ideas," continued the unsparing critic; "for the old insular belief that all foreigners were devils and rogues they substituted another belief, equally grounded on insular lack of knowledge, that most foreigners were amiable, good fellows, who only needed to be talked to and patted on the back to become your friends and benefactors.

They began to believe that a foreign Minister would relinquish long-cherished schemes of national policy and hostile expansion if he came over on a holiday and was asked down to country houses and shown the tennis court and the rock-garden and the younger children.

Listen.


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