"
"I expect you'll have the loveliest time you ever had in
all your life. Do you think you'll be asked out much,
Lorne?"
"I can't imagine who would ask me. We'll get off easy if
the street boys don't shout: 'What price Canucks?' at
us! But I'll see England, Dora; I'll feel England, eat
and drink and sleep and live in England, for a little
while. Isn't the very name great? I'll be a better man
for going, till I die. We're all right out here, but
we're young and thin and weedy. They didn't grow so fast
in England, to begin with, and now they're rich with
character and strong with conduct and hoary with ideals.
I've been reading up the history of our political relations
with England. It's astonishing what we've stuck to her
through, but you can't help seeing why--it's for the
moral advantage. Way down at the bottom, that's what it
is. We have the sense to want all we can get of that sort
of thing. They've developed the finest human product
there is, the cleanest, the most disinterested, and we
want to keep up the relationship--it's important. Their
talk about the value of their protection doesn't take in
the situation as it is now. Who would touch us if we were
running our own show?"
"I don't believe they are a bit better than we are,"
replied Miss Milburn. "I'm sure I haven't much opinion
of the Englishmen that come out here.
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