[The President by Alfred Henry Lewis]@TWC D-Link bookThe President CHAPTER VII 21/29
The least of them beholds a picture of the government in every looking-glass into which he peers. Storri talked with Mr.Harley; Mr.Harley talked with Senator Hanway. These conferences were of Credit Magellan; in particular they had concern with the overthrow of Northern Consolidated.
Congress had been in session ten days when Senator Hanway, one morning, asked Richard to call that evening at nine. "There is something which your paper should print," said Senator Hanway. Richard was with Senator Hanway in the latter's study sharp upon the hour set.
Dorothy was not there; her mother had carried her and the yellow-haired sorceress, Bess, to the theater.
It is to be doubted, even if she were free, whether Dorothy's interest in her political studies would have carried her through a night session.
Besides, the preoccupied Senator Hanway had begun to observe that Richard looked at Dorothy more than he listened to him, and while he suffered no disturbance by virtue of this discovery, the present was an occasion when he wanted Richard's undivided attention.
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