"Of course," said Langley, "you will have your sneer at John Bull."
"Why not? I am, you know, half English."
"Come, Mr. Langley," said Kate, "the English you will admit, are not very sparing of their neighbours."
"They do not make much allowance for any peculiarities, except their own, certainly," remarked Colonel Vernon.
"You are in such a decided minority, you Celts, you had better hold your tongues," cried Winter.
"But what is it you call trash, at the British Museum?" asked Kate.
"Oh, the mummies, and the wigs, and all that; such an embarras of mummies can hardly be conceived!" said Winter.
"I wish we could bring the Gheber mode of disposing of the dead into fashion again; I shall certainly leave a clause in my will that my body shall be burned," observed Galliard.