Ten years in Washington : Life and scenes in the national capital, as a woman sees them . raged—Post-offices as Plenti-ful as Blackberries—Receiving Office-seekers— The Worst Thing in theWorld for You —Dismissing John—Over-crowded Pastures—Johns OwnPrivate Opinion—The Mighty Messenger—Governrnent-Servants—Peculiar Lupartiality of the Man in Office—What the Successful Man Said—I Change My Opinion of Him—A Certain Kind of Man, and Where Hecan be Found. r^ OVERNMENTAL official life has one effect uponV3r those whom it benefits, which is anything but cred-itable to human nature. Mr. Parasite wants
Ten years in Washington : Life and scenes in the national capital, as a woman sees them . raged—Post-offices as Plenti-ful as Blackberries—Receiving Office-seekers— The Worst Thing in theWorld for You —Dismissing John—Over-crowded Pastures—Johns OwnPrivate Opinion—The Mighty Messenger—Governrnent-Servants—Peculiar Lupartiality of the Man in Office—What the Successful Man Said—I Change My Opinion of Him—A Certain Kind of Man, and Where Hecan be Found. r^ OVERNMENTAL official life has one effect uponV3r those whom it benefits, which is anything but cred-itable to human nature. Mr. Parasite wants a high place in the governmentalservice, and circumstances favor his getting it. Whilethere is any doubt about it, he does not disdain to useany influence within his reach to make it certain. Howlovely he is to everybody whose good word or ill wordmay tell for or against him. How affable he is toevery mortal, from the lowliest outspoken man in hishome town, to the influential writer, whose powerful penhe wishes to propitiate. Mr. Parasite glides into his place. THE LOBBY OF THE ( THE CAPITOL.—WASHL\GTO]V. MR. PARASITE IN OFFICE. 383 with grace and resignation. The people, the people,you know, and my friends—they forced it upon me. Theyquite overrate my fitness, quite. I shrink from such re-sponsibilities, such arduous labors; but, if my countryneeds me, if my constituents demand my services, I feelthat I have no right to refuse, no right to consult mypersonal ease, although the desire of my heart is for thepeaceful quiet of private Strange to tell, when an accommodating people areabout to grant him the desire of his heart, Mr. Parasitesuddenly starts up alert, and touches the springs of a mostpowerful enginery. He writes personal letters by thou-sands ; he has his friends—i. e. agents—at work for himeverywhere, whispering with this one, arguing with thatone, and urging his claims incessantly upon the appoint-ing power. But w
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