Listen, some people just come from bad seed. Mr. Heath shook his head. ... "If Ian is from bad seed, though, is from the mother, not the father

His assumption of the Whitehousian justification for censorship (and the use of 'the middle-aged' here is thin cover indeed for the first person singular) — to wit, that these American-style papers may corrupt their children, damage community relations, reduce British cities to New York level, or pollute the public mind.

Your last delivery of copper ore contained half a hundredweight of tramp metal.

A somewhat slovenly congregation will be, at any rate, better than no congregation at all, and a little noise and confusion here and there in the service, will be far better than the propriety and stillness which now reign supreme in our poor bepewed churches.