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His rise had been Teutonic and sure; and he contributed one-twentieth of his income to the German Orphan Asylum and one-tenth to his party's campaign fund. The twentieth saved the orphans from the county, while the tithe gave the county to his party.
I laughed, and so did he, at which I laughed the louder. 'He laughs, I suppose, because his party's got a majority in the House, said the squire. 'We gave you a handsome surplus this year, sir. 'Sweated out of the country's skin and bone, ay! 'You were complimented by the Chancellor of the Exchequer!
However, the Cientificos saw that this was to be the entering wedge, and they promptly prepared to crush the new political faction. Anti-reelectionists were arrested right and left; their newspapers were suppressed, the presses wrecked, and the editors thrown into prison. But the party's blood was up. It did not dissolve. It did not nominate Corral.
"That means, 'Strangers is comin'. If they'd repeated it three or four times, it would have said, 'The party's a big one, and wants watchin'. But they're so fur off, I reckon they'll send two or three spies in ter see how many thar is of us, afore we shall hear from 'em.
On the other hand, we feel pleasure in the act of sympathizing, and find in that a compensation for the pain that the sight of pain gives us. Still, this pleasure may be marred if the other party's own expression of grief or of joy is beyond what we think suitable to the situation.
I saw my picture in the papers next morning as a youth of twenty-three who had become his party's leader in an important agricultural county. Some, in the shameless laudation of a sensational press, compared me to the younger Pitt. As a matter of fact, I had some talent for organization, and in any gathering of men, I somehow never lacked a following.
During the next five months they were incessantly on the go dealing with our party's western machines where they could; setting up rival machines in promising localities where Goodrich controlled the regular machines; using money here, diplomacy there, both yonder, promises of patronage everywhere. Such was my department of secrecy.
You know who they are, don't you?" he asked, and even in his earnestness there was an added touch of importance in his tone as he spoke the name of his party's leader, of men who stood prominently in Wall Street and who were at the head of great trusts. "You see how it is," he said with a shrug of his shoulders. "They have enormous interests at stake.
Quickly but without appearance of haste, he stepped forward diverting attention from the Judge's face, and made himself the center of the party's eyes.
"Too late," said Alligator, making off to the parlor. "I suppose the party's broken up for to-night," said Owl. All moved away by common consent. Hortense let Andy out of the back door and locked it after him. Taking Highboy, who was still shaking, by the hand, she led him up the stairs. "That Alligator's a dreadful person," said Highboy. "I'm sure I'll not sleep at all."
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