How do you like being a statesman?
It was so sudden and all that.

I read an awful roast of you in an English paper.

They took your election to the Senate as another evidence of the complete domination of our politics by the plutocrats." Sanderson winked prodigiously.
"The papers _have_ rather skinned me; but on the whole, I'll do very well.

They say it isn't respectable to be a senator these days, but they oughtn't to hold it up against a man that he's rich.

If the Lord put silver in the mountains of Montana and let me dig it out, it's nothing against me, is it ?" "Decidedly not! And if you want to invest it in a senatorship it's the Lord's hand again." "Why sure!" and the Senator from Montana winked once more.