"You shall have such reward as you have never dreamed in all your life." "How do you mean ?" "I doubt not the reward for a soul which is as keen and able as your heart is warm, Madam.

Come, I am not such a fool as you think, perhaps.
Nor are you a fool.

You are a great woman, a wonderful woman, with head and heart both, Madam, as well as beauty such as I had never dreamed.
You are a strange woman, Madam.

You are a genius, Madam, if you please.
So, I say, you are capable of a reward, and a great one.

You may find it in the gratitude of a people." "What could this country give more than Mexico or England ?" She smiled quizzically.
"Much more, Madam! Your reward shall be in the later thought of many homes--homes built of logs, with dingy fireplaces and couches of husks in them--far out, all across this continent, housing many people, many happy citizens, men who will make their own laws, and enforce them, man and man alike! Madam, it is the spirit of democracy which calls on you to-night! It is not any political party, nor the representative of one.
It is not Mr.Calhoun; it is not I.Mr.Calhoun only puts before you the summons of--" "Of what ?" "Of that spirit of democracy." She stood, one hand ungloved, a finger at her lips, her eyes glowing.