[The Purchase Price by Emerson Hough]@TWC D-Link bookThe Purchase Price CHAPTER XXV 18/27
We think you will do better to fall in with us, to accept the compliment of a European mission--and to take this fair firebrand with you.
We are afraid to have her in Washington." The other listened with a flicker of the eyelid, which showed his interest, but feigned lightness in his speech. "In matters of gallantry, my dear friend, why does Kentucky need a substitute, or even an ally ?" "Kentucky, in the deference due to so great a man as yourself, yields to New York! Will you have snuff, Sir ?" "I thank you, I think not.
But tell me, what is it that New York must do ?" "New York, my dear Sir, must transport, man-handle, murder, wheedle, bowstring, drown, and permanently lose Josephine, Countess St.Auban,--herself late back from Missouri, formerly of God knows where.
I promise you, this country is only a tinder box, waiting for that sort of spark.
To-morrow--but you remember, my dear Horatio!" "But between now and to-morrow is rather a brief period.
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