And my pet project of a Suez Canal,
With this regard its current fails to take;
Let Northcote take his action.
Aramis.
Canal, or no canal: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The wrath of shipowners who’d mend their fortune,
Or take upon us more Egyptian troubles,
And by “investing” vex them? To spend; to spout;