Its form consisted of question and answer: “What’s the matter with Lloyd-George? ’E’s orl right! And what’s the matter with Winston? ’E’s orl right. What’s the matter with Beatty?” . . .
“That fellow is surprisingly like our friend Dainton,” said my uncle.
PART TWO
CHAPTER ONE
THE NAKEDNESS OF THE LAND
“Nothing except a battle lost can be half so
melancholy as a battle won.”
Duke of Wellington: Despatches.