As to the results desired, I say no more." "Yet we sit here and discuss this matter as though we contemplated a simple, proper and dignified act!" "Murder is perhaps not legal, even for the sake of one's country.
But suppose we halt this side of murder.

Suppose that by means known only to yourself, and not even to myself, you gained this young woman's _free consent_ to accompany you, say, to Europe--that would be legal, dignified, proper--and ah! so useful." "And rather risky!" "And altogether interesting." "And quite impossible." "Altogether impossible.

Oh, utterly!" "Quite utterly!" They spoke with gravity.

What the gentleman from New York really thought lay in his unvoiced question: "Could it by any possibility be true that the Fillmore administration would give me support for the next nomination if I agree to swing the Free Soil vote nearer to the compromise ?" What the gentleman from Kentucky asked in his own mind, was this: "Will he play fair with us, or will he simply make this an occasion to break into our ranks ?" What they both did was to break out into laughter at least feignedly hearty.

The Kentuckian resolved to put everything upon one hazard.
"I was just saying," he remarked, "that we have been told the adorable countess perhaps contemplates only a short visit in America after all.