The things we do!

At his right hand, half in shadow, there showed the bold
outlines of a leonine head set upon broad shoulders. Under
cavernous brows, dark eyes looked out with seriousness. Half
revealed as it was, here was a countenance fairly fit to be called
godlike. That this presence was animated with a brain whose
decision had value, might have been learned from the flitting gaze
of the leader which, cast now on this or the other, returned always
to this man at the right. There were seven gentlemen of them in
all, and of these all were clad in the costume of the day, save
this one, who retained the fashion of an earlier time. His coat
might have come from the Revolution, its color possibly the blue of
an earlier day. The trousers fitted close to massive and shapely
limbs, and the long waistcoat, not of a modish silk, was buff in
color, such as might one time have been worn by Washington himself.
This man, these men, distinguished in every line, might have been
statesmen of an earlier day than that of Calhoun, Clay and Benton.


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