CHAPTER the Thirteenth.
Charles Eames and Charles Sumner-Schurzand Lamar--I Go to Congress--A Heroic Kentuckian--Stephen Foster and His Songs--Music and Theodore Thomas I Swift's definition of "conversation" did not preside over or direct the daily intercourse between Charles Sumner, Charles Eames and Robert J.
Walker in the old days in the National Capital.

They did not converse.
They discoursed.

They talked sententiously in portentous essays and learned dissertations.

I used to think it great, though I nursed no little dislike of Sumner.
Charles Eames was at the outset of his career a ne'er-do-well New Englander--a Yankee Jack-of-all-trades--kept at the front by an exceedingly clever wife.

Through the favor she enjoyed at court he received from Pierce and Buchanan unimportant diplomatic appointments.
During their sojourns in Washington their home was a kind of political and literary headquarters.