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we have always been boodlers and robbers and reivers and pirates and cattle thieves, and so we’ve built up the great tradition that we love . . . But, for the moment, it’s painful. Our present crowd is not more corrupt than Walpole’s. But one’s too near them. One sees of Walpole that he consolidated the nation by building up the National Debt: one doesn’t see his methods . . . My son, or his son,will only see the glory of the boodle we make out of this show. Or rather out of the next. He won’t know about the methods.
