Will Mr.Cary honour me ?" and out came a tortoise-shell snuff-box.
The voting quickened.

"Rand is ahead--Rand is winning!" went from mouth to mouth.

Fairfax Cary, caring much where his brother cared little, welcomed impetuously the wave of Federalists which that rumour brought in from the yard and street.

"Ha, Mr.Gilmer, Mr.Carter, you are welcome! Who votes?
Who votes as General Hamilton and Mr.Adams and Judge Marshall vote?
Who votes as _Washington_ would have voted ?" So many crowded to vote as Washington would have voted, that it almost seemed as though his shade might lead the Federalists to victory.

But the dead Washington must cope with the living Jefferson; mild monarchism and stately rule with a spirit born of time, nursed by Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, grown articulate in the French Revolution, and now full swing toward majority.