The things we do!

She has both station and wealth accorded her, so
the story goes, for some service of her family in the affairs of
France. But she will none of monarchies. She turned democrat,
revolutionist, in France, and on the hotter stage of Hungary--and
so finally sought this new world to conquer. She is no artless
miss, but a woman of the world, brilliant and daring, with ideas of
her own about a world-democracy. She is perhaps devout, or
penitent!"
"Nay, let us go softly," came the rejoinder from the shadows.
"Woman is man's monarch only part of the time. We need some man
who is a nice judge of psychological moments and nicely suited
methods. We stand, all of us, for the compromise of 1850. That
compromise is not yet complete. The question of this unwelcome
lady still remains to be adjusted. Were Mr. Clay not quite so old,
I might suggest his name for this last and most crucial endeavor of
a long and troublous life!"
"By the Eternal Jove!" broke in the dark man at the right, shaking
off the half-moodiness which had seemed to possess him.


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