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Updated: June 23, 2025
With the familiarity of the long-time lieutenant, he pecked with thumb and forefinger at the end of a cigar protruding from his chief's waistcoat-pocket. He wrenched off the tip between snaggy teeth. He spat the tip far. "Yes, sir, by jehoshaphat, a caucus!" Chairman Presson's ear had caught the sound of politics. He felt that he was entitled, ex officio, to be present at any conference.
I don't know the girl, or what the main trouble is, but you're acting like a ten-year-old." Thelismer Thornton knew it, and the knowledge added to his helpless rage. He pulled himself out of Presson's grasp. He began to revile the girl in language that made Presson set his little eyes open and purse his round mouth. "Damn it, you don't understand," roared the Duke, whirling on his friend.
Most of all, he knew that the mild applause of the mob would not be loud enough to drown out those familiar voices nearest him he had heard those voices many times before: there was his grandfather, there was Luke Presson, there were the political associates with whom he had already begun to train on the basis of compromise. There was Luke Presson's daughter!
Oh, my sweetheart, how we will cherish it all the years through!" After a time he drew her down on the steps and they sat in silence through long minutes, listening to the muted calling of the crickets in the grasses, the rustle of the river current, all the soft noises of the summer night. Then he bethought himself and drew Madeleine Presson's letter from his pocket.
They've had the nerve to tackle my district. But if they think that I'm going to ungrip and let them grab it they've got a wrong line on old Thornton's sheepfold." "What do you need in the way of help?" asked the State chairman. "Nothing." Thornton turned again to survey his unruly flock. It was plain that they were baiting their overlord. Presson's acumen in politics enlightened him.
He found them sitting democratically on a bench, taking the air. Without preliminary the chairman extended Mrs. Presson's invitation. "There will be a very small party of us, and it may save you from the annoyances of the public rooms," added Chairman Presson, humbly.
Outside of the factional clinches of the House and Senate caucuses the early days have little serious business. Presson's great hotel and the lesser lights of the capital's houses of entertainment were packed to their roofs. The State House on the hill sent sparkling radiance at night from all its hundreds of windows out across the snow which loaded the broad lawns.
As matters were shaping themselves he no longer anticipated that he would be driven into pitched battle, forced to fight intrenched enemies of reform Luke Presson's face most conspicuous of all those behind the party wall of privilege.
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