It is as if I had spoken to Rule Britannia herself.

Would you not be interested?
There is no one in the world who is to his country what the Kaiser is to us.

When you told me he had stayed at Ashbridge I was thrilled, but I was ashamed lest you should think me snobbish, which indeed I am not.

But now I am past being ashamed." He poured out a glass of wine and drank it with a "Hoch!" "In his hand lies peace and war," he said.

"It is as he pleases.