What is Patriotism ? 



minutes, they should have two reals less. Now they are 

 gone, and I can write again, Harry's hat is dreadfully 

 mangled, indeed desperately. He has sent out the pre- 

 tendiente to buy him another, and borrow a fiddle. Madrid 

 is a cheerful-looking town by daylight. At breakfast this 

 morning we met an agreeable Englishman, a contemporary 

 of mine at Eton, and now a fellow of King's. He got the 

 Latin poem medal the same year I did the English one. 

 We have fraternised, and already talk of making an excur- 

 sion to Toledo together. His name is B . 



We shall stay here a fortnight or three weeks, till we 

 have made our excursions, and seen the place. Then we 

 shall turn our bridle-reins towards our native land. What 

 is patriotism r Nothing but the love of my country, because 

 it happens to be my country, — the land of my ancestors, — 

 my home, — to say nothing of being the somewhat ample 

 shrine of my little patroness saint. The true, unselfish, 

 ethereal, abstract sort of thing would be to feel patriotism 

 because it was somebody else's country. 



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