In his own fashion, so far from being the philosopher he thought, Richard was a knight errant--one as mad and as romantic as the most feather-headed Amadis that ever came out of Gaul; and so he is to make himself a deal of trouble and have himself much laughed at before ever he succeeds in slipping through the fingers of this history to seek obscurity with Dorothy by his side.

For all that, it is Richard's due to say that his "R.

S." letters attracted polite as well as political attention, and got him much respected and condemned.

Also they lodged him high in the esteem of Senator Hanway, who discovered daily new excellencies in him; and this came somewhat to the rescue of Richard one day.
Senator Hanway had a room in a wing of the Harley house which Mrs.
Hanway-Harley called his study.

It was a sumptuous apartment, furnished in mahogany and leather, and a bookcase, filled with Congressional Records which nobody ever looked at, stood against the wall.