John Morley: “Brittle like glass is fortune,—bright as light, and then the crash.”

But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.

I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?