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Democracy An American Novel

CHAPTER VIII
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He ought to be encouraged, not reviled.

What was she that she should stand in judgment?
Others watched her progress with less satisfaction.

Mr.Nathan Gore was one of these, for he came in one evening, looking much out of temper, and, sitting down by her side he said he had come to bid good-bye and to thank her for the kindness she had shown him; he was to leave Washington the next morning.

She too expressed her warm regret, but added that she hoped he was only going in order to take his passage to Madrid.
He shook his head.

"I am going to take my passage," said he, "but not to Madrid.


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