"My word," said Mr. Direck in a good old Farmer Hayseed kind of voice.

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They don't laugh at you.... At least—they laugh differently....

Oh, why had he been such a Britling? Why was he still such a Britling?

To-night all over the world ships must be in flight and ships pursuing; ten thousand towns must be ringing with the immediate excitement of war....

"It interrupts everything," said Hugh suddenly. "These Prussians are the biggest nuisance the world has ever seen."

The young are the food of war....

"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."

Then came a letter which plunged abruptly into criticism.

"I suppose I must let you go," she said. "Oh! I'd hate you not to go...."

"Our sons who have shown us God...."