He pretended to take it all out on Emmanuel, whom he declared to be no fair judge of American history.

The other Whipples were beginning to suspect this but were not prepared to admit it either to Sharon or to each other.

For the present they would defend Emmanuel against the hot-headed aspersions of the other.
"You said yourself, not a month ago," expostulated Harvey D., "that he was a smart little Jew." Sharon considered briefly.
"Well," he replied, "I don't know as I'd change that--at least not much.
I'd still say the same thing, or words to that effect." "Just how would you put it now ?" demanded Gideon, suavely.
Sharon brightened.

He had hoped to be asked that.
"The way I'd put it now--having read a lot more of his new-dawning--I'd say he was a little Jew smarty." The other Whipples had winced at this.

The _New Dawn_ was assuredly not the simple light-bringer to America's spiritual darkness that they had supposed it would be; but they were not yet prepared to believe the worst.
"If only they wouldn't be so extreme!" murmured the troubled Harvey D.
"If only they wouldn't say the country has been tricked into war by capital." "That's a short horse and soon curried," said Sharon.