12/21 My wardrobe and house are at your service. Don't hurry me!" Mannering smiled. To the former belong the poets and the sentimentalists; to the latter the statesmen and the soldiers." "What have I done," Mannering murmured, "that I should be sent back to kindergarten? Let me catch my train." "In a moment. To all my arguments and appeals, to all my entreaties to you to realize yourself, to do your duty to us, to history and to posterity, you have replied in one manner only. |