Capitolo 15
"You don't misuse the Yankees", Mrs. Lee dictates; "I am half the Yankee
me."
"Is that abuse? Does he/she mean to deny that they has eyes?"
"I grant that there can be eyes among them; but Virginians it is
judges non equitable of their expression."
"Cold eyes", he continued; "grey steel, rather small, not unpleasant
in good-humour, diabolic in a passion, but worse when a small
mistrustful; then they look them at her as if you were a youth
beat-snake, to be killed when convenient."
"Doesn't it look at her in the face?"
"Yes; but not as if he liked you. Its eyes only seem to ask the
possible uses to which it is probable that you have put. Ah, the vice-president has given
him the floor; we will now have him to us. Does express very hard, is it not? as his
eyes. Hard way as his/her voice. Very hard all through."
"What a pity he is so very senatorial!" tells her/it Mrs. Lee;
"otherwise I admire rather him."
"He is now establishing down to his/her job", continued Carrington. "Sees
as he shifts all the acute problems. What a thing has to be a
Yankee! That that a genius that the individual has for conducting a party! Does her
does he/she see how it is entirely well done? The new President adulated and
reconciled, the party united and determined a strong lead. And now us
he/she will see how the President will treat with him. Ten to one on
Ratcliffe. Comes, there is that stupid donkey of Missouri that he wakes up.
I/you/he/she allow us to go."
As they passed down the footsteps and out in the Avenue, her Mrs. Lee
he turns to Carrington as if she was reflecting deeply and
you/he/she had come for a long time to a decision.
"The Mr. Carrington", it said her, "I want to know Senator Ratcliffe."
"You will satisfy him/it evening" of to-tomorrow, answered Carrington "to
Your senatorial supper."
The Senator from New York, the Honourable Schuyler Clinton,
it was an old admirer of Mrs. Lee, and his/her wife was a cousin of his,
more distant. They had not lost honouring of the time in the letter
of credit she had so on them, and he/she invited his/her sister and she to a