Did you say," he added, looking at Abel, who lay huddled, dead drunk, in his chair, "that he dedicated to his country his profoundest and sincerest, or sincerest and profoundest convictions ?" "And you, Condor," said Enos Slugby, smiling, as he lighted a fresh cigar, "did you say that you were proud and happy, or happy and proud, to call him your friend ?" "Lord! Lord! what an old hum it is--isn't it ?" said General Belch, cheerfully, as he smoothed his hat with his coat-sleeve, and put it on.
They went down stairs laughing and chatting; and the Honorable Abel Newt, the worthy exemplar of the purest republican virtues--as the resolution stated when it appeared in the next morning's papers--was left snoring amidst his constituency of empty decanters and drained glasses..