Soldierlike--monosyllabic--in his official and business dealings he threw aside all formality and reserve in his social intercourse, delightfully reminiscential, indeed a capital story teller.

I do not wonder that he had constant and disinterested friends who loved him sincerely.
IV It has always been my opinion that if Chester A.Arthur had been named by the Republicans as their candidate in 1884 they would have carried the election, spite of what Mr.Blaine, who defeated Arthur in the convention, had said and thought about the nomination of General Sherman.

Arthur, like Grant, belonged to the category of lovable men in public life.
There was a gallant captain in the army who had slapped his colonel in the face on parade.

Morally, as man to man, he had the right of it.

But military law is inexorable.