Senator North

ontgomery, we shall also have t

to be quit

Represe

ut one or two have been pointed out to me that

reak the rule merely because the wife of one of the most objectionable class is an Englishwoman

. The Senate of the United States is regarded abroad as a sort of House of Peers. One has to come and live in Washington to hear of the

ate of cold analysis, Mrs. Madison braced herself for a contest in which she inevitably must surrender with what slow dignity she could command. Betty had called her Molly since she was fourteen months old, and, sweet and gracious in smal

t all, and I wish you would sit down. I hope you don't think that because Sally Carter crosses her knees and cultivates a brutal frankness of expression you must do the sa

han I. You forget that I shall b

ou should stand before the fir

you don't mind. I am sorry to be obliged to say it, and I c

t, for hea

ly permitted her to become the mistress of the household and to think for both. Betty had been educated by private tutors, then taken abroad for two years, to France, Germany, and Italy, in order, as she subsequently observed, to make the foreign attache. Feel more at ease when he proposed. Her winters thereafter until the last two had been spent in Washington, where she had been a belle and ranked as a beauty. In the fashionable set it was believed that every attache, in the city had proposed to her, as well as a large proportion of the old beaux and of the youths who pursue the business of Society. Her summers she spent at her place in the Adirondacks, at Northern watering-places, or in Europe; and the last two years had been passed, with brief intervals of Paris and Vienna, in England, where she had been presented with distinction and seen much of country life. She had returned with her mother to Wash

g. I hear that one is looking for an American with a million. Well, I am g

elief and horrified surprise, but her eyes flew open. "Do you mean that you are

terward, I didn't know the others by name, had never put my foot in the White House or the Capitol, and that no one I knew ever thought of talking politics. He asked me what I had done with myself during all the winters I had spent in Washington, and I told him that I had had the usual girls'-good-time,-teas, theatre, Germans, dinners, luncheons, calls, calls, calls! I was glad to add that I belonged to several charities and had read a great deal; but that did not seem to interest him. Well, I met a good many men like Lord Barnstaple, men who were in public life. Some of them were dull

ou always were so clever-but you can't, you really can't know these men. They are-they are-politicians. We never h

for an American of brains. And most of them are lawyers; others served in the war, and several have distinguished records. They cannot be boors, whether they have blue blood in them or not. I'm sick of blue blood, anyway. Vienna was the deadliest place I ever visited. What makes

ew some, but he never brought them here; he knew the fastidious manner in which I had been brought up; and although I am afraid he kept late

, will you not, that I am old

d use toothpicks, I beg you will not ask me to receive with you." "Of course you will receive with me, Molly dear-when I know anybody worth receiving. Unfortunately I am not the w

ut politics-I remember now-the only women who go to the Capitol are lobbyists-dreadful

t. I shall take Leontine with me, and those intereste

hree years. At first you were just a hard student, and then the loveliest young girl, only caring to have

be a charming girl flirting bewitchingly when I am forty-five. I am finishe

t. You always have prided yourself that I am intellectual, and so I am in the flabby 'well-read' fashion. I feel as if my brain had been a mausoleum for skeletons and mummies; it felt alive for the first time when I began to read the newspapers in England. I want no more memoirs and le

y three hundred years are very respectable indeed-and if these two men had not been in politics I should have been delighted to receive them. I met Senator North once-at Bar Harbor, while you were with the Carters at Homburg-and thought him

and that there is no doubt about there being many bright men in the Senate; but she 'does n

re passee," exclaimed

ill be

he looked like a flower set on so strongly sapped a stem that her fullness would outlast many women's decline. She had inherited the beauty of her father's branch of the family. Mrs. Madison was very small and thin; but she carried herself erectly and her delicately cut face was

u-if you go into that

't matter. Positively-I shall not accept an invitation of t

hese politicians make love to every pretty woman they meet. They are so tired of their old frumps from Oshkosh and Kalamazoo." "They do not all come from Oshkosh and Kalamazoo. Th

don't go into p

Senator Maxwell are gentlemen. There is no

spittoon at every desk in the Senate and t

it, and it has been their solace in the great crises of the nation's history. As for spittoons, they were invented for our own Southern aristocrats who loved tobacco then as now. They decorate our Capitol as a mere matter of form. I don't pretend to hope that ninety representative Americans

e same if I hadn't. You are more like the men of the family than the women-the

y-six Representatives? I am sure I do not know. Don't let that

and rhetoric, and you'll straight-way imagine yourself in love wit

s' or rhetoric. I am the concentrated essence of modernism and have no use for 'oratory' or 'eloquence.' Some o

u-I am too exhausted to discuss the matter further; you

him the least righ

s of his life, but he is your equal and his manners are perfect. I shall live

do that-and that I neve