Serve me to-night.

My time is short; I have no moves to lose.

It is you who will decide before morning whether or not John Calhoun is the next secretary of state.

And that will decide whether or not Texas is to be a state." I had never seen Mr.Calhoun so intent, so absorbed.
We all three now sat silent in the little room where the candles guttered in the great glass _cylindres_ on the mantel--an apartment scarce better lighted by the further aid of lamps fed by oil.
"He might be older," said Calhoun at length, speaking of me as though I were not present.

"And 'tis a hard game to play, if once my lady Helena takes it into her merry head to make it so for him.