There's nothing they don't say about you." "Well, Hallie, they've been saying it for some time; they will go on saying it probably not only about me but about every other man who won't be dictated to by impractical reformers and pharisaical newspapers.

But I must confess that this is rather hard luck!" He held up two of the cuttings.

"I've undertaken to do just what papers like the New York 'Evening Post' and the Springfield 'Republican' are forever begging somebody with courage to do--I've been trying to drive a rascal out of politics.

I'm glad of this chance to talk to you about Thatcher.

He and I were friends for years, as you know." "I never understood how you could tolerate that man; he's so coarse and vulgar that his wife stays abroad to keep her daughters away from him." "Well, that's not my affair.