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There is always to be found men who swell their importance by toadying men of character and eminence. Such are as frequently found in Cincinnati as elsewhere. One of these had sought out Prentiss, and was attempting to make himself agreeable to him by abusing Foote: this abuse wound up by denouncing the distinguished Mississippian as a dog.
But you don't believe that iron and steel need help, you will tell them, don't you see, so that they will feel the necessity of giving you what you want for the South in order to gain your support for the iron and steel demands." The office door opened and Senator Peabody appeared. "Peabody," whispered the secretary. Instantly the Mississippian had his cue.
He once said to me in one of the querulous moods that sometimes overcame him: "If I should live a hundred years my enemies would still call me a Dutchman!" It was Schurz, as I have said, who brought Lamar and me together. The Mississippian had been a Secession Member of Congress when I was a Unionist scribe in the reporters' gallery.
The old Mississippian heard the young man's words. "I reckon it would," he drawled, in agreement. "You feel sure you want me?" urged the other. Langdon chuckled. "I asked you," he said. Haines came abruptly to decision. "I've thought it over, Senator, and it seems to me it will be a great chance in every way. I'll accept. We'll fix it up to-morrow, and I'll try to make you a good secretary."
Land is the rock of the wealth to come. Get land, my boy!" he cries, with the lordly planter's instinct. Valois admires the cold self-confidence of the sardonic Hardin. He opens his heart. He leans upon the resolute Mississippian. It takes little to make Maxime joyfully accept Philip Hardin's invitation to share his office. They will follow the fortunes of the city by the Golden Gates.
"Was there any particular reason for your not telling the truth?" demanded the Mississippian in threatening tone. "I told the truth," replied Norton. "You are interested in them." For an instant Langdon seemed about to step toward him, then he controlled himself. "I didn't know it," he said. "You have several things to learn, Senator," declared the Congressman.
The galleries were stifled. Not even the rustle of a sheet of paper was heard in the reporters' gallery. The Mississippian gazed around the Senate chamber. He saw Stevens and Peabody craning their necks across the aisle and talking excitedly to each other. Then he stepped forward and spoke, waving the paper in the air. "This letter is signed 'Charles Norton."
She would gladly have accepted him as a brother-in-law, for the harm such a relation could do one was limited and definite; whereas in his general capacity of being at large in her life the ability of the young Mississippian to injure her seemed somehow immense. "I wrote to him that time for a perfectly definite reason," she said. "I thought mother would have liked us to know him.
Then he sought to spring away, but Dick, although staggered, swung heavily and struck Woodville on the forehead. The Mississippian went down full length on the slippery grass but jumped to his feet in an instant. Blood was flowing from his forehead, whence it ran down his nose and fell to the earth, drop by drop. Dick himself was bleeding from the cut on his cheek bone.
He took a step forward, feinted, parried skillfully, and then stepped back. Woodville, always agile as a panther, followed him and swung for the chin, but Dick, swerving slightly to one side, landed with great force on Woodville's jaw. The young Mississippian fell, but, while Dick stood looking at him, he sprang to his feet and faced his foe defiantly.
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