“It merely referred,” Mr. Podsnap explained, with a sense of meritorious proprietorship, “to Our Constitution, Sir. We Englishmen are Very Proud of our Constitution, Sir. It Was Bestowed Upon Us By Providence. No Other Country is so Favoured as This Country.”

“And ozer countries?⁠—” the foreign gentleman was beginning, when Mr. Podsnap put him right again.

“We do not say Ozer; we say Other: the letters are T and H ; You say Tay and Aish, You Know; (still with clemency). The sound is th ⁠— th !”