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Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story
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Sir Max Beerbohm
101
To
all
Rhodes
Scholars,
indeed,
his
courtesy
was
invariable.
He
went
out
of
his
way
to
cultivate
them.
And
this
he
did
more
as
a
favour
to
Lord
Milner
than
of
his
own
caprice.
He
found
these
Scholars,
good
fellows
though
they
were,
rather
oppressive.
They
had
not--how
could
they
have?--the
undergraduate’s
virtue
of
taking
Oxford
as
a
matter
of
course.
The
Germans
loved
it
too
little,
the
Colonials
too
much.
The
Americans
were,
to
a
sensitive
observer,
the
most
troublesome--as
being
the
most
troubled--of
the
whole
lot.
The
Duke
was
not
one
of
those
Englishmen
who
fling,
or
care
to
hear
flung,
cheap
sneers
at
America.
Whenever
any
one
in
his
presence
said
that
America
was
not
large
in
area,
he
would
firmly
maintain
that
it
was.
He
held,
too,
in
his
enlightened
way,
that
Americans
have
a
perfect
right
to
exist.
But
he
did
often
find
himself
wishing
Mr.
Rhodes
had
not
enabled
them
to
exercise
that
right
in
Oxford.
They
were
so
awfully
afraid
of
having
their
strenuous
native
characters
undermined
by
their
delight
in
the
place.
They
held
that
the
future
was
theirs,
a
glorious
asset,
far
more
glorious
than
the
past.
But
a
theory,
as
the
Duke
saw,
is
one
thing,
an
emotion
another.
It
is
so
much
easier
to
covet
what
one
hasn’t
than
to
revel
in
what
one
has.
Also,
it
is
so
much
easier
to
be
enthusiastic
about
what
exists
than
about
what
doesn’t.
The
future
doesn’t
exist.
The
past
does.
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