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So afterwards, in the time of the Embargo, Parson Eaton, of Harpswell, a Federalist, is recorded to have introduced his prayer for the President in a formula which might be recommended at the present day for the use of the people of Kansas.
In the closing days of the administration of John Quincy Adams a delegation came to Washington to present to the administration the grievances of the Cherokee nation. The formal reception of the delegation fell to the lot of Eaton, the new Secretary of War.
She was sitting on the arm of a chair, her slender feet hanging, and the combination of her blue linen dress with the fiery gold of her hair reminded Lady Lucy of the evening in the Eaton Square drawing-room, when she had first entertained the idea that Alicia and Oliver might marry.
Eaton, who had aided in the original concoction of that foul slander, was appointed Secretary of War. Branch, who received the appointment of Secretary of the Navy, was one of the few Senators who had voted and spoken against the confirmation of Henry Clay to the office of Secretary of State in 1825; and Berrien, Attorney-General, was another.
Van Buren adroitly pulled the strings that directed her movements. Mr. Calhoun, whose wife was foremost among those ladies who positively refused to associate with Mrs. Eaton, said to a friend of General Jackson's, who endeavored to effect a reconciliation, that "the quarrels of women, like those of the Medes and Persians, admitted of neither inquiry nor explanation."
"I looked around for Zillah, but she had disappeared, and the gentlemen, just at the moment, were out of sight. "'Sit here, I said, leading Mrs. Harrington into one of the tents, 'while I go in search of some one who can tell me where the carriage is. "Mrs. Harrington sat down, white and faint, both Mrs. Eaton and her daughter came to her and offered help.
When the door of the house in Eaton Square opened for her she was conscious of shrinking from the sympathetic eyes of the war-substituted woman-servant who was the one who had found her lying on the landing. She knew that her face was white and that her eyelids were stained and heavy and that the woman saw them and was sorry for her.
I don't want Mr. Thornton to know nothin' about this one. I'd never hear the last of it." "Well, then you'd better let me take him to the police station." "Yes " hesitatingly; "I suppose so. But " and she looked down at the baby who was contentedly playing with the trimming on her dress "I jest hate to send a baby there." "I'll tell you what I'll do," said Dr. Eaton.
Some one in the back of the room broke the tense silence and hissed: "The damned Judas!" Instantly echoes of "Judas! Judas!" filled the room, and pursued Eaton to his cab. It would be many years before he could recall without scalding shame that moment when the finger of public scorn was pointed at him in execration.
I mean," she added, "what you were asking me: how I knew to-day, in Eaton Square, that Maggie's awake." And she had indeed visibly got it. "It was by seeing them together." "Seeing her with her father?" He fell behind again. "But you've seen her often enough before." "Never with my present eyes.
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