Oh, Unity, if Uncle Dick and Uncle Edward would but make friends before we go!" Unity, stopping for an hour at Cousin Jane Selden's, remarked to that lady, "Ah, she is happy! She does not know and she does not care what is said of Lewis Rand.

They say dreadful things.

The last Gazette--" "She doesn't hear a Federalist upon the subject," replied Cousin Jane.
"The last Gazette! Pooh! who believes what a Federalist paper says of a Republican, or a Republican paper says of a Federalist?
Most men and all newspapers are liars." "It says that he is a Buonaparte ready to break the shell." "Buonaparte's a great man, my dear." "And that the Mammoth's alarmed--" "Like the hen that hatched the eaglet--" "And that Lewis Rand's no more Republican at heart than he is Federalist.

He's just for Lewis Rand." "Hm-m-m!" "And that his name's known as far west as the Mississippi." "There's no law against a man's name spreading.

It's what every man strives for.