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54 The Decline and Fall the sturdy frames of her men, and the bright glances of her noble women: for him the fields never lose their freshness and village pleasures never pall. But such an one is no idle talker ; he is prepared to make sacrifices for v^hat he pro- fesses to love. Above all things, he is one who looks ahead, who spends time, money, and quiet forethought, that nothing may happen against which adequate preparations have not been made. And these are greater things than to die. Why should I tell again the shameful story that is known to each of us: of the possessions that were stripped from England because she had slumbered ; of the Isle denuded of troops ; of the corn-ships that never came ; of the fleet that grew weary with watching ; of the dark night, and the crowded trans- ports ; of streets that lay sodden
of the British Empire 55 with the blood of those who ran because they had never learned to shoot ; of the women who cursed them for cowards when the foreigner was quartered in their homes ? How came it that a hundred years ago, in 1905, when Earl Roberts, who had saved them from defeat in South Africa, told them in un- mistakable language* the needs of their Empire, these poor townsfolk failed to play the man and realize the dangers which surround an empire whose inhabitants cannot defend it ? How came it that in this sad year they told one another tales of Nelson |, who had left them an ideal that every man was to do his duty, but made not the slightest effort to find out what that duty was ? We can only conclude that they were ceasing to love their * Speeches in the House of Lords, July nth, and at the 'Mansion House, Aug. i, 1905. t Their noble admiral who died at Trafalgar in 1805, 200 years ago.
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