"And here's Cato with the decanters! We might have a hand at Loo--eh, Unity?
you and Fairfax, Ned Hunter and I .-- The card-table, Cato!" The four sat down, the card-table being so placed as to quite divide Jacqueline and Ludwell Cary, at the harp, from Major Edward's small table and Rand beside the sofa.

"Edward!" said the Colonel.

His brother nodded, gathered up his cards, and turned squarely to the entertainment of the Republican.

"So, Mr.Rand, Mr.Monroe goes to Spain! What the Devil is he going to do there?
I wish that your party, sir, would send Mr.Madison to Turkey and Colonel Burr to the Barbary States! And what, may I ask, are you going to do with the Mississippi now that you've got it?
It's a damned expensive business buying from Buonaparte.

Sixty millions for a _casus belli_! That's what you have paid, and that's what you have acquired, sir!" "I don't think you can be certain that it's a _casus belli_, sir--" "Sir," retorted the Major, "I may not know much, but what I know, I know damned well! You cry peace, but there'll be no peace.