“We shall not, this year,” said my rich friend—a Lady—“while the people
of Europe are starving and fighting—we shall not this year have our
large annual banquet.”
But had she walked not a mile from her home, she would have seen in her
own city men starving, and fighting because of the terrible dread of
starving. And not this year alone had they been doing it, but for many
years of large banquets.
However, if all Ladies and Gentlemen felt acutely all these matters,
what would become of our institution of Large Banquets—or, indeed, of
the Divine Privileges of Monarchs!