He won a great victory today, when all our other leaders for years have been beaten in the Valley of Virginia, and sometimes beaten disgracefully too." "Your argument is unanswerable, Frank," said Dick.

"I didn't expect such logic from you." "Oh, I think I'm real bright at times." "Despite popular belief," said Warner.
"I don't advertise my talents," said Pennington.
"But you ought to.

They need it." Dick laughed.
"Frank," he said, "I give you your own advice to me.

Don't argue with him.

With him the best proof that he's always right is because he thinks he is." "I think clearly and directly, which can be said of very few of my friends," rejoined Warner.
Then all three of them laughed and lay down again, resting their heads on soft lumps of turf.
They were under the boughs of a fine oak, on which the leaves were yet thick.