You do not realize the sums required. You do not
realize how vast are the complications."
She stepped closer to him in her eagerness.
"All it needs is money, and management. A start, and the country
will follow. Mr. Fillmore himself was about to recommend it, in
his last message. Let me furnish the money, and do you attend to
the complications."
Carlisle rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "It's beautiful; it may be
wise, but it's impossible. It would take a king's credit."
"At least we might begin with such funds as are already at hand,"
smiled the Countess St. Auban. "It might be difficult? I suppose
the building of the pyramids was difficult. Yet they were begun.
Yet they are finished. Yet they stand, complete, to-day."
"It is hardly for me to advise in a case so grave as that," said
Carlisle. "I should not undertake it. Have you really
considered?"
"I have often followed over the same old course of reasoning, South
against North," she said, smiling at him.
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