Of course, I am trying to make him see the folly of such a proceeding, but--You are right.

Men are cowards.

That insufferable upstart is actually bullying the President into a state of terror.

Already he has compelled him to prosecute some of our best friends out in the Western country, and if the Courts weren't with us--" Branch checked himself abruptly.

It was not the first time he had caught himself yielding to Washington's insidious custom of rank gossip about everything and everybody; but it was about his worst offense in that direction.