It makes him powerful good company, and as popular as scandal.

You go to the White House when the President's holding a general reception--sometime when Mulberry's there.
Why, dear me, you can't tell which of them it is that's holding that reception." "Well, he certainly is a remarkable man--and he always was.

Is he religious ?" "Clear to his marrow--does more thinking and reading on that subject than any other except Russia and Siberia: thrashes around over the whole field, too; nothing bigoted about him." "What is his religion ?" "He--" She stopped, and was lost for a moment or two in thinking, then she said, with simplicity, "I think he was a Mohammedan or something last week." Washington started down town, now, to bring his trunk, for the hospitable Sellerses would listen to no excuses; their house must be his home during the session.

The Colonel returned presently and resumed work upon his plaything.

It was finished when Washington got back.
"There it is," said the Colonel, "all finished." "What is it for, Colonel ?" "Oh, it's just a trifle.