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Updated: June 7, 2025
So ran the Congressman's announcement in the daily press of the district. Every young man had to be of proper age, height, weight and general good bodily condition. He must, of course, be a citizen of the United States. Every young man was advised to save himself some possible trouble and disappointment by going, first of all, to his family physician for a thorough examination.
In these new days he was considerate and patronising. Was he not one of the wealthiest men in town with his six thousand dollars laid by? Was he not its most honoured citizen, not excepting the mayor and selectmen? Was he not, above all, a close friend of the Bonners? The Bonners were to spend August in the Congressman's home across the big river.
Before he reached the door Mr. Gashwiler returned to the social level with a chuckle: "You say this woman, this Garcia's niece, is handsome and smart?" "Yes." "I can set another woman on the track that'll euchre her every time!" Mr. Wiles was too clever to appear to notice the sudden lapse in the Congressman's dignity, and only said, with his right eye: "Can you?"
The acceptance of a retainer from the C. St. and P. Railroad Company for wholly unnecessary services in Washington only another way of buying a man a transaction arranged by Senator Stevens, was but another stage in the disintegration of the young Congressman's character, but it brought him just that much closer to the point where he could claim Carolina Langdon as his own.
This astute distinction was not true of the Lincoln the Congressman confronted; nevertheless, it betrays much both of the observer and of the man he tried to observe. In the Congressman's day, what he thought he saw was in reality the shadow of a Lincoln that had passed away, passed so slowly, so imperceptibly that few people knew it had passed.
Flossy had intimated that unless a woman were hand in glove with these people and ready to lower herself to their standards, she must be the wife of a rich Senator to be tolerated. Flossy had virtually told her that a Congressman's wife was nobody. Could this be true? The bitterest part of all was that it was evident Flossy spoke with the assurance of one uttering familiar truths.
They appeased him by telling him that the appropriation for supplies and other necessaries the last year was ten thousand dollars, and they were of the opinion that the former agent had saved half of it. A gleam of joy and quick consent were prompt! Walking up and down his Congressman's room, pleased, then thoughtful, then morose, he finally exclaimed to his patron, "Look here, Mr.
I've been clear out to 'Frisco and back in eleven days, and I got cold in those blessed sleepin' cars. The receiver fell from the congressman's hand. It was a difficult object to pick up again. Heman groped for it in a blind, strangely inadequate way. Yet he wished to recover it very much. "Wait! wait!" he shouted anxiously. "I I I dropped the Are you there, Whittaker? Are you Oh! yes!
Unlike that one, however, in this instance it is safe to say that none, not even the adoring and praise-chanting Miss Phinney, derived quite the enjoyment from the congressman's speech that Captain Cy did. It tickled his sense of humor.
Sometimes it leads them to try every mode of adding to their attractions, their whole thought is how to be most lovely in the eyes they would fill so as to keep out all other images. Poor darlings! We smile at their little vanities, as if they were very trivial things compared with the last Congressman's speech or the great Election Sermon; but Nature knows well what she is about.
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