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This was the aristocracy which had for its defenders such men as the Adamses, the Shermans, and the Langdons, something new in the history of governments and empires, which was really subverted by the doctrines of Rousseau and the leaders of the French Revolution, whom Jefferson admired and followed.
"But I do know, before the Langdons or anybody else can have Blacklock pie, they'll have first to catch their Blacklock." I saw Langdon had made him uneasy, despite his belief in my strength. And he was groping for confirmation or reassurance. "But," thought I, "if he thinks I may be going up the spout, why isn't he more upset?
"A sore subject with all the Langdons," thought I. "It must be very sore, indeed, to make a man who is all manners, neglect them." My whole life had been a series of transformations so continuous that I had noted little about my advance, beyond its direction like a man hurrying up a steep that keeps him bent, eyes down.
Spangler and her present mode of life at his first opportunity, hoping the while that his quest would reveal her to be what the Langdons considered her a widow of wealth, fashion and reserve who resided at the capital because the memories of her late husband, a former Congressman of high standing, were associated with it.
If she had not lifted her eyes to his face so softly and kept them there so calmly and withdrawn them so quietly, he would not have said to himself, "She is a lady," for that word meant a good deal to the descendant of the courtly Wentworths and the scholarly Langdons. "There are strange people everywhere, Mr. Langdon," she said, "and I don't think our school-room is an exception.
"He's eager to keep friends with me," thought I, "until he's absolutely sure there's nothing more in it for him and his people." And that guess was a pretty good one. It is not to the discredit of my shrewdness that I didn't see it was not hope, but fear, that made him try to placate me. I could not have possibly known then what the Langdons had done.
A woman with a measure of social standing would naturally prove the most successful as a lobbyist in Washington because of the opportunities her position would afford her to meet people of prominence. And just such a one was Mrs. Cora Spangler, with whom the Langdons had been thrown in contact quite intimately since their arrival at the capital. Pretty and vivacious, Mrs.
I'd like to make it easy for you, but I can't. You've got to take your medicine, children, and when it's all over back there in Mississippi I shall be able, I hope, to patch up your broken lives, and together we will work out your mistakes. I can't think of that now. The honor of the Langdons calls. This is the time for the fight, and any one who fights against me must take the consequences."
You ought to be made to pay fur it, that's what," grumbled the fellow, scowling vindictively, and yet not daring to assume the offensive while the four chums were present; for he had never tried conclusions with Frank, and was suspicious of the new boy in Centerville for the Langdons had lived there about a year, Frank's father having purchased the bank of which he was now president.
You know the Langdons keep a sharp watch on operations in their stock. And he dropped in to warn me as a friend. You'd do the same thing in the same circumstances. He didn't say a word about my calling your loans. I to be frank I instantly thought of it myself. I intended to do it when you came, but" a sickly smile "you anticipated me." "I understand," said I good-humoredly. "I don't blame him."
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