[…] its members must adapt themselves to the changes which the country is undergoing, if they wish to command the regard, nay, the affection which the ma baps used to command in the olden days.

The historians of the future may engage in a similar debate about when Cold War II started in earnest. Was it in 2014, with the unilateral Russian annexation of Crimea and the backlash this produced from the United States and its European allies? Or did Cold War II begin with the brief Russo-Georgian War of 2008?

Jalyerri greeted them with his usual flash of white teeth. “Go goot goona bugger dat feller,” he observed, referring to Ed Smith. “What’s goona?” Calum asked Brian. “Shit.”

[…] and looking out she saw Sir William Grant approaching at an easy trot, for he was anxious to avoid giving her any sudden shock; but the poor animal's state told its own tale; and starting up, Lady Sydney herself opened the hall-door […]