I say that one might do a thousand things instead, and that whenever I really come there I have the sense of hairbreadth escape.

And when I hear the guard shout out the word 'Victoria,' it is not an unmeaning word.

It is to me the cry of a herald announcing conquest.

It is to me indeed 'Victoria'; it is the victory of Adam." Gregory wagged his heavy, red head with a slow and sad smile.
"And even then," he said, "we poets always ask the question, 'And what is Victoria now that you have got there ?' You think Victoria is like the New Jerusalem.

We know that the New Jerusalem will only be like Victoria.