Yet were this lady quite unattached, or her duena not wholly impossible, one might consider the distinguished role of disinterestedly saving one's country in the capacity at least of chaperon." They looked at each other, and broke into laughter.

Yet minds so keen as theirs long before them had read between lines on the printed page, under the outward mask of human countenances.
"Stranger things have happened!" said the gentleman from Kentucky.
"My soul and body' My dear Sir, you do not speak seriously ?" His surprise was feigned, and the other knew it.
"I was never so serious in my life.

My friend, it seems almost as though fate had guided me to your side to-night.

At this time, when our diplomacy abroad is none too fortunate, and when our diplomacy at home is far more delicate and dangerous, you yourself, known the country over as a man of tact and delicacy, are the one man in the world to handle this very mission.

It is the Old Fox of the North, after all, Free Soiler or not, who alone can smooth down matters for us.