Britling realise that the victoriousBritish had recoiled five and twenty miles....And then came the Sunday of _The Times_ telegram, which spoke of a"retreating and a broken army." Mr. Britling did not see this, but Mr.Manning brought over the report of it in a state of profoundconsternation. Things, he said, seemed to be about as bad as they couldbe.
But our peculiar bad luck has been to get a sort ofrevolutionary who is a Tory mandarin too. Ruskin and Morris, forexample, were as reactionary and... read more
