`` I believe you ! '' Miss Ellen nodded . `` Mark my words , Mr. Meredith , that man is going to fight somebody yet . He 's ACHING to . He is going to set the world on fire . '' `` If you mean that he will wantonly precipitate a great war I hardly think so , '' said Mr. Meredith . `` The day has gone by for that sort of thing . '' `` Bless you , it has n't , '' rumbled Ellen . `` The day never goes by for men and nations to make asses of themselves and take to the fists . The millenniun is n't THAT near , Mr. Meredith , and YOU do n't think it is any more than I do . As for this Kaiser , mark my words , he is going to make a heap of trouble '' -- and Miss Ellen prodded her book emphatically with her long finger . `` Yes , if he is n't nipped in the bud he 's going to make trouble . WE 'LL live to see it -- you and I will live to see it , Mr. Meredith . And who is going to nip him ? England should , but she wo n't . WHO is going to nip him ? Tell me that , Mr. Meredith . '' Mr. Meredith could n't tell her , but they plunged into a discussion of German militarism that lasted long after Rosemary had found the book . Rosemary said nothing , but sat in a little rocker behind Ellen and stroked an important black cat meditatively . John Meredith hunted big game in Europe with Ellen , but he looked oftener at Rosemary than at Ellen , and Ellen noticed it .
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