"I've been trying to realize for the last few minutes, that he is the same old fellow I've been treating so familiarly all day long." "Yes, he is a great man," she answered.

"This is only the beginning." "That's true," said Briscoe, who had overheard her.

"He'll go pretty far.

A man that people know is steady and strong and level-headed can get whatever he wants, because a public man can get anything, if people know he's safe and honest and they can rely on him for _sense_.

It sounds like a simple matter; but only three or four public men in the country have convinced us that they are like that.