My prophecies stand confirmed.

I always said it was in you.

I always said you were born for high distinction and would achieve it.

You ask Polly if I didn't." Washington was dazed by this most unexpected demonstration.
"Why, Colonel, there's nothing to it.

That little narrow, desolate, unpeopled, oblong streak of grass and gravel, lost in the remote wastes of the vast continent--why, it's like representing a billiard table--a discarded one." "Tut-tut, it's a great, it's a staving preferment, and just opulent with influence here." "Shucks, Colonel, I haven't even a vote." "That's nothing; you can make speeches." "No, I can't.