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Choate's mind and character which he must have known could not be intelligently discussed in a book so swiftly and lightly executed. No such notion seems to have occurred to him. He has rattled off his "Reminiscences" with a confidence which may be justly called indecent and impertinent. The result is what might have been expected.
Choate has said, and made the remark: 'I already have Choate's speech. It has in it a good deal of poetry. I asked the reporter: 'From what author is the poetry taken? He answered: 'I do not know the author, but the poetry is so bad I think Choate has written it himself." Mr. Choate told me a delightful story of his last interview with Mr.
Jeff sat silent a while, his eyes upon the field across the flats where the boys were playing ball. Yet in the end he did begin. "That necklace, Choate," said he, "is a regular little devil of a necklace. Do you realise how much mischief it's already done?" Between Esther's asseverations and Lydia's theories Choate's mind was in a good deal of a fog.
He felt the glow and impulse of the great sentiments of race and nationality in all their natural simplicity and poetic force. It is not now the time to discuss Mr. Choate's political preferences and opinions. No one who knew him well can hesitate to pronounce his motives pure and patriotic.
The more radical thought that Mr. Choate's speech should be resented at once. However, those who appreciated its humor averted hostile action, but Mr. Choate was never invited to an Irish banquet again. The second historical occasion was when the Scotch honored their patron Saint, St. Andrew.
They elected him a Bencher of the Middle Temple, the first American to receive that honor after an interval of one hundred and fifty years. Choate's witticisms and repartees became the social currency of dinner-tables in London and week-end parties in the country. Choate paid little attention to conventionalities, which count for so much and are so rigidly enforced, especially in royal circles.
Since Partridge's time there had been no such prophecies, since Miller's, no such perverse disobligingness in the event. But what had happened? Why, the Democratic Young Men's Celebration, to be sure, and Mr. Choate's Oration.
I've been thinking about this infernal necklace, and I realise it's of no value at all." Choate's mind leaped at once to the jewels in Maupassant's story, and Madame Beattie's quick disclaimer when he ventured to hint the necklace might be paste. Did Jeff know it was actually of no value?
Choate's admirers, and to fix more firmly than ever such unfavorable notions of him as may have existed in the minds of others. Mr. Parker does not appear to have considered what he undertook, when he stepped so lightly into the position of the biographer of such a man.
Choate's oration is, of course, to Compromises on the Slavery question. We agree with him, that no man of sense will deny that compromise is essential in politics, and especially in our politics. With a single exception, all that he says on this topic is expressed with masterly force and completeness. But when we come to the application of it, the matter assumes another face.
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