Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . ^ client to prison, I repeatedin stentorian tones. Oh ; I cant, cant I?he exclaimed, rising, very redin the face. I cant. Veil,young fellow, yust you setdown on dot chair vor a leedlevile, an vatch me adoin of. it. Mrs. D. H. Hastings. A cynical French writer has said, If youwant to see the best side of a man live w4th himfor a week ; if you want to see the worst side livewith him for a month. If this be true, then, so far as daily intercoursefor six weeks furnishes a criterion, there is noworse side to General Hastings. There i
Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . ^ client to prison, I repeatedin stentorian tones. Oh ; I cant, cant I?he exclaimed, rising, very redin the face. I cant. Veil,young fellow, yust you setdown on dot chair vor a leedlevile, an vatch me adoin of. it. Mrs. D. H. Hastings. A cynical French writer has said, If youwant to see the best side of a man live w4th himfor a week ; if you want to see the worst side livewith him for a month. If this be true, then, so far as daily intercoursefor six weeks furnishes a criterion, there is noworse side to General Hastings. There isnot a member of the campaigning part}^ who will H not coincide in the statement that no man up under such continuous strain—six weeksand more of it—and bore it so calmly, with sucheven temper, with such kindly regard for othersas did this man Hastings. And nobody but a veteran knows what a cam-paign means. Four campaigns have taught methat there is no such thing as privacy for the can-didate. It is one of the penalties of politicalpreferment. Men of all ages, conditions, charac-ter, flock in to shake hands, to congratulate, tocondemn, to beseech, to borrow, to advise, to ad-monish. Every fellow of them imagines that heholds a sight judgment note on the
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