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His back was toward Bradley, and he stood for some time looking at the curious scene and listening to Radbourn's talk. "Congress brings to Washington a fulness of life which no one can understand who has not spent the summer here," Radbourn went on, in a slow, measured voice, his lips close to the bell-like opening of the tube.
As real free traders were scarce, Mason, a brilliant young Democrat, requested Radbourn to take the side of free trade, and he consented. Milton formed the third part of the free trade cohort. He liked the fun of trying to debate on the opposite side, a thing which would have been impossible to Bradley's more intense and simple-hearted nature. What he believed he fought for.
He goes out in the storms and in the heat and dust. His boots are hard, and see how his hands are all bruised and broken by his work! He was tired and hungry when he said that he didn't really mean it." The wife remained silent. "Mr. Radbourn says work, as things go now, does degrade a man in spite of himself.
They thought Bacon had no right to speak out that way, and Miss Graham uttered her protest, as they whirled away on the homeward ride with pleasant jangle of bells. "But the secret of it all was," said Radbourn in answer, "Pill knew he was acting a part.
Bradley compared every man he met with Radbourn and Judge Brown, and every woman suffered comparison with Ida Wilbur. He went down to meet Cargill on the night of the promised call. He found him seated on the small of his back, his hands in his pockets. He was particularly violent, and paid no attention whatever to Bradley. "No, sir; I am not a prohibitionist.
An' to hear him talkin' here t'night, is enough to make a horse laugh." "You're all in league with the devil," said the old man wildly; and so the battle raged on. Milton and Radbourn escaped from it, and got out into the clear, cold, untainted night. "The heat of the furnace don't reach as far as the horses," Radbourn moralized, as he aided in unhitching the shivering team.
She loved that cold, stern face, oh, so much! and to have him smile was a pleasure that made her heart leap till she suffered a smothering pain. She turned to him to say: "I am very thankful, Mr. Radbourn, for another pleasant ride," adding in a lower tone, "it was a very great pleasure; you always give me so much. I feel stronger and more hopeful." "I'm glad you feel so.
"I see. How much do you need?" mused Radbourn. "I guess two hundred would stave off the worst of them." "I guess Brown and I can fix that. Come in again to-night. Or no, I'll bring it round to you." The two men parted with a silent pressure of the hand that meant more than any words. When Mr.
They passed through the corridors in upon the house floor, which swarmed with legislators, lobbyists, pages, newspaper men and visitors. Radbourn led the way down to the open space before the speaker's desk, and together they turned and swept the semi-circular rows of seats. "Everywhere the visitor abounds," said Radbourn. "Western and Southern men predominate.
He saw the colorless, handsome face of Radbourn, and his look of reproach and note of suggestion Radbourn, one of the best thinkers in Rock River, and the most generally admired young man in Rock County. When he saw and heard Bacon, his hurt pride flamed up in wrath, but the calm voice of Radbourn, and the look in his stern, accusing eyes, made his head fall in thought.
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