Senator North

ed Mrs. Madison, at the Sunday midday dinner. Her voi

Montgomery-and Lady Mary

n case I do not feel equal to the ordeal at the last moment. I am surprised that she takes your cours

cent, but sympathetic. She knows that I have got to the end of teas and charities, and she believes in people choo

hould detest her if I didn't, for she is the worst form of snob: she is so rich and so well born that she thinks she can dress like a servant-girl and affect

Madison, colouring and serious. She changed the subject hastily. "Jack, I hope you

herself by turning round upon him several times with abrupt significance. However, she spared him until they had taken Mrs. Madison to the parlor and gone to the library, where he might smoke his after-dinner cigar. He sat down in front of a window, and the sunlight poured ov

it! You've had eleven days, and one

d of his cigar, but answ

d if you suggest that a Senator of the United States, honouring Washington with the society of his wives and daughters, is anything that he should not be. I was obliged to go to Ne

-and there is no sordid commercial atmosphere to lower it. It is the great city of leisure in everything but legislation and paying calls; so it seem

ere are unquestionably men there who bought their seats from legislatures, and there are men wh

-North, Maxwell, Ward, March-and fifteen or twenty others, all the men who are the Chairmen of the big Committees?

nwillingly. "But that leaves plenty of others. Only a few of the Western States are above suspicion, and as for New York, Pennsylv

corrupting influences in the Senate, but that element is in the minority, and the greater number of leading, or able Senators are above suspicion. And they seem to h

ll that are making a desperate stand for honesty to-

ng of the word 'decadent;' and we are extraordinarily clever. Senator Burleigh says that you can always bank on the Ame

anything to do with these people. Politics have a bad name, whatever the truth of the matter. I think myself our sensational press is largely to

lined from many attacks of malarial fever. Her manner was breezy and full of energy, and she was not only popular but a very important person indeed. She lived alone with her father in the old house in K Street and entertained rarely, but she had strawberry leaves on her coronet, and it was currently reported that when she arrived in England, clad in a rusty black serge and battered turban,-which she certainly slept in at intervals

paralysis any minute. It must be so cheerful to sit round and anticipate that. Why on earth do women let their nerves run away with them, in the first place? Nerves in this country are a mixture of climate, selfishness, and stupidity. I could be as nervous as a witch, but I won't. I walk miles ev

of disgust. "I hope you told

ail her little yacht on the political sea, I wanted her to be re

will go in and see my aunt," he said.

Betty's mocking laugh. But M

adame Rolands. He is an ideal himself, if he only knew it; I've always been half in love with him. Well, Betty, how do you like your new toy? After all, what is even a Senate but a toy for a pretty woman? That is really your attitude, only

estion never had occurred to her before, but as she asked it he

eral Lathom proposed to me four times, and the only time I felt like accepting him was when I saw his statue unveiled. I couldn't put a man on a pedest

an attempt at playfulness. "We must d

they think of him as a 'dominant personality.' If he is unfaithful to his wife, he is romantic in the eyes of a woman who has given no man a chance to be unfaithful to her. If he c

gh Englishmen have more mystery and provoke your curiosity, they don't understand women and don't want to; the women can do the adapting.

that Senator Burlei

inner man?"

thoughts. But his outer is

inks a lot of him: as you know, I read the Post and Star thro

her frigid attempt at tolerance and of Emory's sullen silence. Sally Carter

s when I meet the statesmen of my country. I am sure that is the way you feel, dear Cousin Molly-is it not? We are

to meet Miss Carter. He appeared to have left his businesslike manner on Capitol Hill, and he was even less abrupt than on the night of the di

s to be a wet blanket on the conversation. I have been assuring her that o

ple talk about what they understand best." "Politics are what I should like to understand least. Since I have come to the Senate I have endeavoured to f

e truth to people who would be glad to take him at his word. There was a twinkle of am

ou younger men should try to re

s kind to us, we can swallow our own dose with a reasonable amount of philosophy. John Quincy Adams arraigned the politics of

remember only that his family was as old as her own. He had lost none of the repose he had found during his three years' residence in Europe, but the effort to ke

. Do you know, Miss Madison, I paid twenty-six calls on Thursday, eigh

nd quickly. "Some women are so manifestly made for it," he said,