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In the clubs, long after, you would hear it said that Hollowell and Henderson were awfully sharp, and hard to beat. It is a very bad business, said the Brandon parliament, and it just shows that the whole country is losing its moral sense, its capacity to judge what is right and what is wrong.
Morgan asked her if she expected that the business of sixty millions of people was going to be done with the order and decorum of a lyceum debating society. In one of the committee-rooms she saw Hollowell, looking at ease, and apparently an indispensable part of the government machine. Her own husband, who had accompanied the party, she lost presently, whisked away somewhere.
Social life had few attractions for Hollowell, for his family were in the West; he appeared to have no relations with any branch of government; he wanted no office, though his influence was much sought by those who did want it. "You spend a good deal of time here, Mr. Hollowell," Margaret said one day when he called in Henderson's absence. "Yes, ma'am, considerable.
What Newport needs is a real palace, just to show those foreigners who come here and patronize us. Why is it, Mr. Hollowell, that all you millionaires can't think of anything better to do with your money than to put up a big hotel or a great elevator or a business block?"
Only a very few people knew such old hands as Uncle Jerry Hollowell, and such inquisitive bandits as Murad Ault that the house of Mavick was a house of cards, and that it might go down when the belief was destroyed that it was of granite.
The public good is one of the motives that looks best in Washington. Henderson and Hollowell got what they wanted in regard to the Southwest consolidation, and got it in the most gentlemanly way. Nobody was bought, no one was offered a bribe.
They'll have to come down lively." "I shouldn't wonder. By-the-way, look in tomorrow. I've got something to show you." Henderson lit his cigar, and they both puffed in silence for some moments. "By-the-way, did I ever show you this?" Hollowell took from his breast-pocket a handsome morocco case, and handed it to his companion. "I never travel without that. It's better than an accident policy."
It was the price, he said, that everybody had to pay for success. Why shouldn't he, she reflected, make money? Everybody would if they could, and no one knew how generous he was. If she had been told that the family of Jerry Hollowell thought of him in the same way, she would have said that there was a world-wide difference in the two men.
When Henderson rose to propose the health of Jerry Hollowell, neither he nor the man he eulogized as a creator of industries whose republican patriotism was not bound by State lines nor circumscribed by sections was without a sense of the humor of the situation. And yet in a certain way Mr. Hollowell was conscious that he merited the eulogy.
"She's as pretty as a picture, that girl, but I should think a good wind would blow her away. I shouldn't want to have her drive me round." "Jorkins has sailed," said Mr. Hollowell, looking up from his paper. "The Planet reporter tried to interview him, but he played sick, said he was just going over and right back for a change.
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