"Not the first time either. Mrs. Davis told me that when the Senator was so ill with neuralgia and came near losing his sight, Seward came every day, sat in the darkened room and talked for hours to his enemy—"
"That's because he's a Black Republican. Their ways are dark. They like rooms with the shades pulled down—"
"Anyhow he likes Mr. Davis."
"Well, it's good-by to the old Union—how many Senators are going to-day?"
"Yulee and Mallory from Florida, Clay and Fitzpatrick from Alabama and Senator Davis—"
"All in a day?"
"Yes—"
"Jennie, they'll talk their heads off. It'll be three o'clock before the first one finishes. We'll die. Let's go to Mt. Vernon—"
"Dick Welford, I'm ashamed of you. You've no patriotism at all—"
"And I just proposed a pilgrimage to the home of George Washington!"