They would probably have competed fairly
well with these in the courses of the colleges to which the Welsh
send their daughters as well as their sons; but I will not
pretend that the good looks of either the men or women was of the
American average. I cannot even say that these contemporary
ancient Britons had the advantage of the toothless English
peasantry in the prompt dentistry which is our peculiar blessing.
In Great Britain, though I must not say Ireland, for I have never
been there, a few staggering incisors seem a formidable equipment
of the jaw in lower-class middle life and even tender youth. The
difference is a tremendous advantage which, if it does not make
for the highest character in us, will doubtless stand us in good
stead in any close with the well-toothed Japanese, and when we
are beaten, our gold-fillings will go far to pay our indemnity.
After all those thousands at the station had departed, there were
still visitors enough left in Aberystwyth to distend the hotels
uncomfortably; and the next morning we set out in the pursuit,
always interesting and alluring, of lodgings.
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