[The President by Alfred Henry Lewis]@TWC D-Link bookThe President CHAPTER X 13/33
The threat to bar the Harley doors to Richard had set him agog with angry apprehensions.
What! should his best agent of politics, one who was at once the correspondent of that powerful influence the _Daily Tory_ and the authorized mouthpiece of the potential Mr.Gwynn who owned the Anaconda, nay, was the Anaconda, be insulted, and arrayed against him? And for what? Because of the baby heart of a girl scarce grown! Was a White House to be lost by such tawdry argument? Forbidding Richard the door might of itself appear a meager matter, but who was to say what results might not spring from it? Senator Hanway had seen the gravest catastrophies grow from reasons small as mustard seed! A city is burned, and the conflagration has its start in a cow and a candle! Mrs.Hanway-Harley shall not put his hopes to jeopardy in squabbles over Dorothy and her truant love.
Senator Hanway felt the hot anxiety of one who, bearing a priceless vase through the streets, is jostled by the inconsiderate crowd.
Domestic politics and national politics had come to a clash. Senator Hanway stood staring at Mrs.Hanway-Harley.
He required time to gather control of himself and lay out a verbal line of march.
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