[The Gilded Age Part 7. by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner]@TWC D-Link bookThe Gilded Age Part 7. CHAPTER LVII 4/16
And then, let me think .....
Dilwortby will be elected to-day, and by day, after to-morrow night be will be in New York ready to put in his shovel--and you haven't lived in Washington all this time not to know that the people who walk right by a Senator whose term is up without hardly seeing him will be down at the deepo to say 'Welcome back and God bless you; Senator, I'm glad to see you, sir!' when he comes along back re-elected, you know.
Well, you see, his influence was naturally running low when he left here, but now he has got a new six-years' start, and his suggestions will simply just weigh a couple of tons a-piece day after tomorrow.
Lord bless you he could rattle through that habeas corpus and supersedeas and all those things for Laura all by himself if he wanted to, when he gets back." "I hadn't thought of that," said Washington, brightening, but it is so. A newly-elected Senator is a power, I know that." "Yes indeed he is .-- Why it, is just human nature.
Look at me.
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