Otherwise momma'll get you into trouble." I nodded with affectionate consideration.

"I'll make a note of what you say, Senator," I replied, and immediately, from motives of delicacy, we changed the subject.

As we talked, poppa told me in confidence how much he expected of the democratic idea in Paris.

He said that even the short time we had spent in England was enough to enable him to detect the subserviency of the lower classes there and to resent it, as a man and a brother.

He spoke sadly and somewhat bitterly of the manners of the brother man who shaved him, which he found unjustifiably affable, and of the inexcusable abasement of a British railway porter if you gave him a shilling.