[The American Senator by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe American Senator CHAPTER X 9/17
What is that man's name ?" Morton hadn't heard the name, or had forgotten it.
"I shall find that man out, and have some conversation with him, Mr.Morton.I respect that man, Mr.Morton.
He's one against two hundred, and he insists upon his rights.
Those men standing round and wiping their eyes, and stifled with grief because a fox had been poisoned, as though some great patriot had died among them in the service of his country, formed one of the most remarkable phenomena, sir, that ever I beheld in any country.
When I get among my own people in Mickewa and tell them that,--they won't believe me, sir." In the meantime the cavalcade was hurrying away to Impington Gorse, and John Morton, feeling that he had not had an opportunity as yet of showing his American friend the best side of hunting, went with them. The five miles were five long miles, and as the pace was not above seven miles an hour, nearly an hour was occupied.
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