Democracy, an American novel

Henry Adams

Capitolo 11

accounts.

Before they had been ten days to Washington, them they softly fell in
their place and you/he/she was brought long without an effort on the brook
of the social life.

Society was kind;  there was not otherwise reason for his/her being. Mrs.
Protection and his/her sister didn't have enemies, they didn't hold offices, and they did them
better making himself/herself/themselves popular. Sybil had not passed summers to
Newport and winters in New York in vain;  and neither his/her face neither
his/her figure, his/her voice neither his dancing, excuse had need. Politics
it was not his/her strong point. You was incited for going once to the
Capitol and bottom ten minutes in the gallery of the Senate. Anybody
he/she ever knew what you/they were his/her impressions;  with female touch her
succeeded in not betraying himself/herself/themselves But, in truth, his/her notion of
legislative bodies were vague, while being floating among its experience to
church and to the work, so that the idea of a show of some
kind was not out never of its head. To his/her mind the Senate was a
place where people went to recite to memory talked, and her naively
it supposed that the discourses were useful and they had a purpose, but as
they didn't interest him to them she didn't go again never. This is a lot a
the conception common of Congress;  many Members of the congress divide him/it.

His/her sister was more patient and more daring. You went to the Capitol
almost every day for at least two weeks. At the end of that time her
interest started to point out, and she thought better that it read the debate
every morning in the Congressional Record. Finding this a
hard-working and not always an instructive assignment, she started to skip about the
dull parts;  and in the absence of some exciting question, her finally
him discharged to ignoring the whole one. Nevertheless she still had
energy to visit every now and then the gallery of Senate when she was said
what a splendid orator was almost about to speak on a question of depth
interest to his/her country. You listened with a small disposition to
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