You are not a fool, Mr.Trollop." "Miss Hawking you flatter me.

But seriously, you do not forget that some of the best and purest men in Congress took that stock in that way ?" "Did Senator Bland ?" "Well, no--I believe not." "Of course you believe not.

Do you suppose he was ever approached, on the subject ?" "Perhaps not." "If you had approached him, for instance, fortified with the fact that some of the best men in Congress, and the purest, etc., etc.; what would have been the result ?" "Well, what WOULD have been the result ?" "He would have shown you the door! For Mr.Blank is neither a knave nor a fool.

There are other men in the Senate and the House whom no one would have been hardy enough to approach with that Relief Stock in that peculiarly generous way, but they are not of the class that you regard as the best and purest.

No, I say I know you Mr.Trollop.