Naturally, I was helpless." "Did he perhaps ask how you were induced to come at so impossible a time?
My own vanity, naturally, leads me to ask so much as that." "No, Mr.Calhoun confined himself to the essentials! Even had he asked me I could not have replied, because I do not know, save that it was to me a whim.

But at least we talked, over our cider and toasted apples." "You told him somewhat of yourself ?" "He did not allow me to do that, Monsieur." "But he told you somewhat of this country ?" "Ah, yes, yes! So then I saw what held him up in his work, what kept him alive.

I saw something I have not often seen--a purpose, a principle, in a public man.

His love for his own land touched even me, how or why I scarcely know.

Yes, we spoke of the poor, the oppressed, of the weary and the heavy laden." "Did he ask you what you knew of Mexico and England ?" "Rather what I knew of the poor in Europe.