I believe they'll like me better in this district, and, perhaps, in a broader way, after I have been there.

Then I want Jean to enjoy with me all the mummery and absurdity of the most mixed social conditions on the face of the civilized globe, and, besides that, I've been invited to take black bass with her out of a certain stream in the Shenandoah Valley, and to kill a deer or two, with headquarters at an old house up in West Virginia." He said this lightly, yet I knew it was not far from the full truth.
He had ideas of changes and reforms, and was prepared to fight for them.

As for Jean and the fishing and the shooting, that was a matter of course.

He must get out to nature, and he must have her with him certainly.

As for me, personally--well, we had fought the world together for many a year, and I never knew him to fail me, and I could not very well fail him.