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The Gilded Age
Part 4.

CHAPTER, XXXII
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And this isn't even the beginning.

Just as I used to say--she'll be a card in the matter of--yes sir! She shall turn the men's heads and I'll turn the women's! What a team that will be in politics here.

I wouldn't take a quarter of a million for what I can do in this present session--no indeed I wouldn't.

Now, here--I don't altogether like this.

That insignificant secretary of legation is--why, she's smiling on him as if he--and now on the Admiral! Now she's illuminating that, stuffy Congressman from Massachusetts--vulgar ungrammatcal shovel-maker--greasy knave of spades.


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