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"For God's sake, Doc, dry up," said Kettle, "and pull yourself together, and remember you're a blooming Englishman." Clay's thin yellow cheeks flushed. "What's the use?" he said with a forced laugh. "'Tisn't as if anybody wanted to see any of us home again." "I'm wanted," said Kettle, sharply, "by my wife and kids. I've got them to provide for, and I'm not going to shirk doing it.
MISSOURI COMPROMISE JOHN RANDOLPH'S JUBA MR. MACON HOLMES AND CRAWFORD MR. CLAY'S INFLUENCE JAMES BARBOUR PHILIP P. BARBOUR MR. PINKNEY MR. BEECHER, OF OHIO "CUCKOO, CUCKOO!" NATIONAL ROADS WILLIAM LOWNDES WILLIAM ROSCOE DUKE OF ARGYLE LOUIS McLEAN WHIG AND DEMOCRATIC PARTIES.
Clay intimated that the committee felt some delicacy about appropriating Douglas's carefully drawn measures. With a courtesy quite equal to Clay's, Douglas urged him to use the bills if it was deemed wise. For his part, he did not believe that they could pass the Senate as a single bill. In that event, he could then urge the original bills separately upon the Senate.
You have to take Miss Clay's place tonight." Tony's face went white. She leaned against the wall trembling. "I forgot I forgot about the play. I can't go to Mexico. Oh, what shall I do? What shall I do?"
Alice Ronder was over sixty and as active as a woman of forty. Ronder looked at her and laughed. "Never forgive you! What words! Do I ever cherish grievances? Never... but I do like to be comfortable." "Well, everything was all right a week ago. I've slaved at the place, as you know, and Mrs. Clay's a jewel but she complains of the Polchester maids says there isn't one that's any good.
"Oh!" she added, passionately; "if Clay was only different! Can't you help him to be strong, Mr. Trevison? Like you? Can't you be with him more, to try to keep him straight for the sake of the children?" "Clay's odd, lately," Trevison frowned. "He seems to have changed a lot. I'll do what I can, of course." He stepped out of the door and then looked back, calling: "I'll put Clay's pony away.
Clay's vices and inconsistencies were readily forgiven. He had denounced duelling as barbarous, yet when sharp-tongued John Randolph referred to him and Adams as having, in 1825, formed "the coalition of Blifil and Black George, the combination of the Puritan and the blackleg" for Clay gambled Clay challenged him. They met, the diminutive Randolph being in his dressing-gown.
He did not see how Kettle could possibly carry out this evangelizing scheme, on which he had so suddenly gone crazed, without quite neglecting his other commercial duties. However, in the course of the next day or so, as he witnessed Captain Kettle's method of spreading his faith, Clay's forebodings began to pass away.
Colonel Benton's narrative of it is at once the most amusing and the most affecting piece of gossip which our political annals contain. Randolph, as the most unmanageable of members of Congress, had been for fifteen years a thorn in Mr. Clay's side, and Clay's later politics had been most exasperating to Mr. Randolph; but the two men loved one another in their hearts, after all.
They know me here, and they don't know you, and I do. You'll have to go to jail and stay there." "Oh, well, if you put it that way, I'll go," said Burke. "But," he added, in a lower voice, "it's too late, Clay." The expression of amusement on Clay's face, and his ease of manner, fell from him at the words, and he pulled Burke back into the chair again. "What do you mean?" he asked, anxiously.
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