It was obviously his policy to appear all things to all people. He could not venture to take any decided course.

After we had dispatched our compliments to each other, and I had awkwardly returned in country scrapes his a la mode bows and cringes, he needs must prevail with me to join him at a tavern hard by and dine with some gentlemen of his acquaintance.

I am not yet qualified to keep a greyhound. If this should be the test of squirehood, it will go hard with a great number of my fraternity, as well as myself, who must all be unsquired, because a greyhound will not be allowed to keep us company

Straighforward Serbian nationalism, in this pressure-cooker, mutated into Yugoslavism.