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But this does not seem to have been the case with the bulk of the delegates from other States. The explanation given us of their action is curious. The choice was not the result of merit; on the other hand, it was not the work of the ordinary wicked wire-puller, for what may be called the machine was working for Seward.
Uttered by every variety of voice, with every variety of accent, it filled the stifling atmosphere, and tickled many an empty brain, like the catchword political that can set a nation behind one astute wire-puller. Boys yelled it, men murmured it, and an elderly woman in a plush gown and yellow feathers screamed it out in a piercing soprano that would have put many a trumpet-blast to shame.
"If you like, we might drop in for a while." Frederick agreed, again begging his friend not to refer to his nervous attack. "It was very astute of me, or of the wire-puller above us, to postpone my fit until the very moment you were with me," he said.
George you got the champeen wire-puller of the lot, the king politician of them all the only one in this town, I do believe, could have thrown a bag as neat over your head, Mr. West." "Why, Plonny! Much learning has made you mad! I know Dayne like a book, and he's as straightforward a fellow as ever lived." Mr.
"The first evening he was here, he saved me from Lady Henry twice. He's alone in the world, too, which attracts me. You see, I happen to know what it's like. An only son, and an orphan, and no family interest to push him " "So you thought you'd push him? Oh, Julie, you're a darling but you're rather a wire-puller, aren't you?" Julie smiled faintly.
I haven't any mortgage on it." "Whom are you going to run for captain?" "It's no use to talk any more about it, if you are going for Carnes," replied Wilton, as he turned to move away. The wire-puller was playing a part. Paul Kendall was a noble little fellow, and was already a great favorite on board, not only with the boys, but with the principal and the professors.
"Nor I," added Shuffles. "I won't vote for Carnes, any how. He's a snob and a flunky." It was useless to resist the fiat of the chief wire-puller; the ticket remained as it had been originally prepared; and the young gentlemen proceeded to distribute the rest of the offices. The students on board of the Young America were between the ages of fourteen and seventeen.
Maybe, then, Mrs. Saumarez had been behind the Reform party in Hathelsborough? there was a woman wire-puller at the back of these matters as a rule, he believed that sort of thing, perhaps, was Mrs. Saumarez's little hobby. He turned from these speculations to find her at his elbow. "Thank you for coming, Mr. Brent," she said softly.
Euphemia was his mistress, and a victim of heredity; all the signs of degeneration were noticeable in her. The chief wire-puller in this affair was Maslova, presenting the phenomenon of decadence in its lowest form.
This was Leon de Castro, a man of considerable but unassimilated learning, an astute wire-puller and incorrigible reactionary whose name figures in the bibliographies as the author of a series of commentaries on Isaiah a performance which has not been widely read since its tardy first appearance in 1571.
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