hich any mother credits her son. Miss Quested learnt it with anxiety, for
she had not decided whether she liked dignified men. She tried indeed to
discuss this point with Mr. Turton, but he silenced her with a good-humoured
motion of his hand, and continued what he had come to say. “The
long and the short of it is Heaslop’s a sahib; he’s the type we want, he’s one
of us,” and another civilian who was leaning over the billiard table said,
“Hear, hear!” The matter was thus placed beyond doubt, and the Collector
passed on, for other duties called him.

hich any mother credits her son. Miss Quested learnt it with anxiety, for
she had not decided whether she liked dignified men. She tried indeed to
discuss this point with Mr. Turton, but he silenced her with a good-humoured
motion of his hand, and continued what he had come to say. “The
long and the short of it is Heaslop’s a sahib; he’s the type we want, he’s one
of us,” and another civilian who was leaning over the billiard table said,
“Hear, hear!” The matter was thus placed beyond doubt, and the Collector
passed on, for other duties called him.