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the apparent exceptions finally destined to fall inside the rule. Mrs.
Properly protection was presumed to be a candidate for office. To the
Washingtonians was clearly a matter that her/it Mrs. Lee it owes
Silas P. gets married him Ratcliffe. What he should be happy to get a
wife to the fashion and intelligent, with winds or thirty thousand
dollars for year, were not amazing. What she should accept the first one
public man of the day, with a flattering opportunity for the
Presidency--a man still comparatively young and not without good
glances--it was perfectly natural, and in his/her enterprise she had the
all the women's understanding in Washington well you regulate that they were not
possible competitors; for to them the wife of the President is more
consequence that the President; and, indeed, if America only
the wiseacre, they is not very away from the truth.
However, some there was to that this benevolent didn't consent
although worldly perspective of the proposed match. These ladies were
severe in their comments on the behavior of the Mrs. Protection, and it didn't do
you hesitate to declare their opinion that she was the more calm and more
ambitious minx that had ever come inside their observation.
It unfortunately happened that the respectable and correct one Mrs.
Schuyler Clinton taken this perspective of the case, and it did little
you try to conceal his/her opinion. You was justly made indignant to her
the gross worldliness of cousin and the possible promotion in line.
"If Madeleine Ross old common Illinois gets married him, horrid
statesman,"
tells her his/her husband, "I will never forgive her/it so long as me I live."
The Mr. Clinton tried to excuse Madeleine, and you/he/she also went till now as to
suggests that of age difference was anybody greater than in them really
case; but his/her wife mercilessly stamped on on his/her matter.
"In every case", it said her, "I never came to Washington as a widow
on purpose to put my beret for the first candidate for the Presidency,
and I never made a public show of my indecent anxiety in