Richard settled himself a little more comfortably upon the table.
"I can't tell you all," he proceeded, "how interested I have been, listening up there.

Quite a gift of putting things clearly, if I may be allowed to say so, you seem to possess, Mr.Selingman.Now here's my reply as one of the poor Anglo-Saxons from the West who've got to make room in the best parts of the world for your lubberly German colonists.
If you make a move in the game you've been talking so glibly about, if my word counts for anything, if my persuasions count for anything--and I've facts to go on, you know--you'll have the American fleet to deal with at the same time as the English, and I fancy that will be a trifle more than you can chew up, eh?
I'm going back to America a little earlier than I anticipated.

Of course, they'll laugh at me at first in Washington.

They don't believe much in these round-table conferences and European plots.

But all the same I've got some friends there.