"Perhaps you would like that
honor? I think it could be arranged. Indeed," he added, after a
moment spent in careful study of his companion's face, "I would
even undertake to arrange it. My dear Sir, with your well known
charm of manner with men, and women as well, you could in that case
win the lasting plaudits of your country, if you but possessed the
resolution!"
"In a cause so noble, I would do what I might! But what is the
cause? And is it proper for one of my place to engage in it?"
"You could, I say, be hailed by the administration in power, not as
the Father of your Country, perhaps, but as its savior. Take this
woman out of our camp, and into your own. Flock your own fowl
together, you Free Soilers! Take her out of Washington, get her
back to Europe--where she belongs,--and, without jesting, my dear
Sir, you shall have the backing next year, two years hence--in
1853,--any time you like--of the men who make this administration,
and of the men behind this compromise.
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