pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone

NPR is reporting that Suckabee lost South Carolina!

“Victory over such unkind jeerers would be sweet,” said Lady Caroline.

It is the habit of heartlessly pecking at these that shows a soul that is blasé. Of late, for example, it has been a fashion with a small minority of British writers to assert their culture by a very supercilious demeanour towards an idea which ought, beyond all others, to be sacred in this island—the idea of Liberty.