He will vote for our bill--no fear about that; and moreover he will work for it, too, before I am done with him.

If he had a woman's eyes he would have noticed that the spray of box had grown three inches since he first gave it to me, but a man never sees anything and never suspects.

If I had shown him a whole bush he would have thought it was the same.

Well, it is a good night's work: the committee is safe.

But this is a desperate game I am playing in these days -- a wearing, sordid, heartless game.