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And now; when he stood at a distance of only one step from the highest place, he was pursued by a clamorous host of creditors, and compelled to resort to a hundred expedients to maintain the expensive establishments supposed to be necessary to a Vice-President's dignity. His political position was as hollow as his social eminence. Mr.
He's one of these slow motioned, quiet talking ginks, with restful ways, such as would fit easy into a swivel chair and hold down a third vice-president's job for life. Or he might be a champion chess player. So when the boss goes on to say how Mr. McCrea is connected with the Washington sleuth bureau I expect I must have gawped at him a bit curious.
There must be a company of cavalry ordered here for escort to the President, and he must not go out of call of the guards without an escort. "The President said: 'This will not look well, but I suppose I must do it for safety. I do not like this Vice-President's talk; it worries me. But how about yourself, Gen. Silent; they seem to be after you as well.
Danvers contemptuously replied: "You seem proud of your alleged intimacy with a notorious criminal. Perhaps you are the Vice-President's brother, or are you his man-servant?" The taunt raised a laugh at Arlington, who roared out: "Burr did right in calling Hamilton to the field; he vindicated his own honor." "Push off! Loosen that line!" shouted the captain from the deck.
The Honorable David's chuckle rumbled deep in his capacious chest. "Barto phoned you an hour or so ago that he had 'em, but, owing to circumstances over which he had no control, he couldn't deliver 'em to you until to-morrow morning. Isn't that about the way it shapes up?" The vice-president's frown marked an added degree of irritation.
The vice-president's heavy eyebrows slanted in questioning surprise. "You knew in advance that you were going to turn me down? Yet you came a thousand miles to meet me here; and you admit that you have gone the length of looking the ground over." Lidgerwood's smile was mirthless. "A regular recurring phase of the disease.
I have been through the town seeking you everywhere even at that abominable Club, where Frenchmen and vagabonds of all kinds congregate." "I was at the Vice-President's, sir," answered George, with a comical assumption of the Vice-President's manner. "You were WHERE?" "At Richmond Hill. I made an early call on Mrs. Adams." Then General Hyde laughed heartily. "You swaggering dandy!" he replied.
Bob, however, was more concerned about regaining possession of his pass and ascertaining when his train would leave than in speculation as to whether or not he would be rewarded, and he made no bones about saying so. "Never mind the pass, now," returned the messenger, who was to escort him to the vice-president's office. "We'll get that in plenty of time so you won't miss your train."
He was not accustomed to eating at the vice-president's table, but there was no resisting the curly-headed young man when he chose to make himself companionable. Barclay sat on the edge of his chair, ate with his knife or fork indifferently, and had small use for the extra spoons and cutlery. But he made a meal to be remembered.
Martha would and did; not ungrudgingly on the vice-president's account, but with many misgivings on Thomas Jefferson's.
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