"Partly," said Dexter, smiling.
"And oil?"
"No. I have never had any opportunity to coin gold with the Aladdin's lamp found in Pennsylvania. There is no magic in any of my occupations; they are all regular and commonplace."
"Are you in Congress now?"
"No; I was only there one term."
"A bore, isn't it?"
"Not to me."
"Congress is always a riot," said Miss Vanhorn, still with her eyes closed.
"I can not agree with you," said Dexter, his face taking on one of its resolute expressions. "I have small patience with those Americans who affect to be above any interest in the government of the country in which they live. It is their country, and they can no more alter that fact than they can change their plain grandfathers into foreign noblemen."
"Dear me! dear me!" said Miss Vanborn, carelessly. "You talk to me as if I were a mass-meeting."