"
"Each for himself, and devil take the hindmost," said
Hesketh; "and when the hindmost is England, as our friend
Murchison declares it will be--"
"So much the worse for England," said Milburn, amiably.
"But we should all be sorry to see it and, for my part,
I don't believe such a thing is at all likely. And you
may be certain of one thing," he continued, impressively:
"No flag but the Union Jack will ever wave over Canada."
"Oh, I'm sure of that!" Hesketh responded. "Since I have
heard more of your side of the question I am quite
convinced that loyalty to England and complete commercial
independence--I might say even commercial antagonism--may
exist together in the colonies. It seems paradoxical,
but it is true."
Mr Hesketh had naturally been hearing a good deal more
of Mr Milburn's side of the question, staying as he was
under Mr Milburn's hospitable roof. It had taken the
least persuasion in the world to induce him to make the
Milburns a visit. He found them delightful people. He
described them in his letters home as the most typically
Canadian family he had met, quite simple and unconventional,
but thoroughly warm-hearted, and touchingly devoted to
far-away England. Politically he could not see eye to
eye with Mr Milburn, but he could quite perceive Mr
Milburn's grounds for the view he held.
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