He came into the room after Mrs.Seal's outburst and pointed out, with historical illustrations, that such reverses had happened in every political campaign of any importance.

If anything, his spirits were improved by the disaster.

The enemy, he said, had taken the offensive; and it was now up to the Society to outwit the enemy.

He gave Mary to understand that he had taken the measure of their cunning, and had already bent his mind to the task which, so far as she could make out, depended solely upon him.

It depended, so she came to think, when invited into his room for a private conference, upon a systematic revision of the card-index, upon the issue of certain new lemon-colored leaflets, in which the facts were marshaled once more in a very striking way, and upon a large scale map of England dotted with little pins tufted with differently colored plumes of hair according to their geographical position.