I've fooled away the best years of my life taking care of these little fellows, and I've spent a lot of money on them.

It's become a little monotonous, I can tell you.

It's begun to get on my nerves, for I have a few; and all this hammering I've taken from the newspapers has begun to make me hot.

I know about as much as they do about the right and wrong of things; I suppose I know something about government and the law too!" "Yes," Sylvia assented eagerly.
He readjusted himself in his chair, crossing his legs and thrusting his hands into his trousers pockets.
"It _would_ be rather cheerful and comfortable," he continued musingly, as though unburdening himself of old grievances, "to be free to do as you like once in a lifetime! Those fellows in Thatcher's herd who have practically sold out to me and are ready to deliver the goods to-night are all rascals, swung my way by a few corporations that would like to have me in Washington.

It would be a good joke to fool them and elect a man who couldn't be bought! It's funny, but I've wondered sometimes whether I wasn't growing tired of the old game." "But the new game you can play better than any of them.