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Updated: May 13, 2025

Spiggott's bosom swelled and his eyes flashed with a noble fire he was not here to-night to consider Mr. Ruse's feelings and wishes; he was here, as they all were, in the discharge of a public duty. Ruse an act of self-sacrifice. He must accept the nomination. He could not, he would not dare desert the Banner of Reform. Mr. Spiggott paused, wiped his brow and his eyeglasses, and continued.

Lemuel Ely Quigg - Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York: A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular: Phases of Metropolitan Life