.... We are learning differently now…. And anyhow, Mr. 42 War and the Future Runciman has been here and given Italy assurances….” In the train to Modane... ... had heard a speech, a wonderful speech from a railway train, by “the Lord Runciman.” He had said the most beautiful things about Italy . I did my bes... ...best to echo these beautiful things. Then the Irishwoman remarked that Mr. Runciman had not satisfied everybody. She and her husband had met a min- is... ... to give Italy all that she needed. “But,” said the husband casually, “Mr. Runciman is a ship- owner.” I explained that he was nothing of the sort. It... ... that he was nothing of the sort. It was true that he came of a shipowning family—and perhaps inherited a slight tendency to see things from a shipown... ...acy, because he said only aristocrats make aviators. (He was a man of good family.) With a duke or so in my mind I asked him why. Because, he explaine...

...tinence, and honest, modest, underpaid toil, Messrs. Asquith, McKenna, and Runciman. It is doubt- ful if the rise in wages is keeping pace with the ri... ...ps by the way. But go on muddling, each for himself and his parish and his family and none for all the world, go on in the old way, stick to-your ‘rig... ...es that centre upon young Master Slingsby’s ear—whether it is the Slingsby family ear or the ear of a supposititious child—a question that any three o... ... ago. Essentially it is a Gov- ernment of lawyer-politicians with no close family ties or intimate political traditions and prejudices. And its natura... ...ct. A steadily increasing proportion of people were living outside the old family home, the home based on maternity and offspring, altogether. A numbe... ...nd was the fall in the birth-rate, the diminu- tion in size of the average family, the increase of sterile unions, and the consequent release of a con...

...he others looking on with evident delight at having such a linguist in the family. As all my remarks were duly translated and communicated to the rest... ... reserved his defence. He has been seedy, however; principally sick of the family evil, despondency; the sun is gone out utterly; and the breath of th... ...rds cannot tell how good they are! And the scene where Clarissa beards her family, with her fan going all the while; and some of the quarrel scenes be... ...man. Next address, Poste Restante, Alais, Gard. Give my servilities to the family. Health bad; spirits, I think, looking up. – Ever yours, R. L S. Let... ...ER 1878. MY DEAR MOTHER, – I have seen Hamerton; he was very kind, all his family seemed pleased to see an Inland Voyage, and the book seemed to be qu... ...rother is one of the ancientest, did nothing for me? As for my seamen, did Runciman ever know eighteenth century buc- caneers? No? Well, no more did I...