[The Gentleman From Indiana by Booth Tarkington]@TWC D-Link bookThe Gentleman From Indiana CHAPTER XVII 20/33
It's dangerous, because it shortens our time; but we can fix it for three days before the day we'd settled on, and that will bring it to September 7th.
What we want of you, judge, is to go to the convention as a delegate, and make the nominating speech for Mr.Harkless.Will you do it ?" "Do it ?" cried the old man, and he struck the table a resounding blow with his big fist.
"Do it? I'd walk from here to Rouen and back again to do it!" They were all on their feet at this, and they pressed forward to shake Briscoe's hand, congratulating him and each other as though they were already victorious.
Mr.Martin bent over Helen and asked her if she minded shaking hands with a man who had voted for Shem at the first election in the Ark. "I thought I'd rightly ort to thank you for finishin' off Kedge Halloway," he added.
"I made up my mind I'd never vote for him again, the night he killed that intellectual insect of his." "Intellectual insect, Mr.Martin ?" she asked, puzzled. He sighed.
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