The political and commercial aspects of the polyglot peoples, what they wanted, what they expected, what they needed; racial enmities.

The bugaboo of the undesirable alien was no longer bothering official heads in Washington.
Stringent immigration laws were in the making.

What they wanted to know was an American's point of view, based upon long and intimate associations.
Washington reminded him of nothing so much as a big sheep dog.

The hazardous day was over; the wolves had been driven off and the sheep into the fold; and now the valiant guardian was turning round and round and round preparatory to lying down to sleep.

For Washington would go to sleep again, naturally.
Often it occurred to him what a remarkable piece of machinery the human brain was.