He saw his Chief among the foreign Ministers, bearing a face of portentous solemnity....
But he liked best the Illinois and Kentucky delegates; he thought the dead President would have liked them too.
Major Endicott was pointing out the chief figures.

"There's Grant...
and Stanton, looking more cantankerous than ever.

They say he's brokenhearted." But Mr.Hamilton had no eye for celebrities.

He was thinking rather of those plain mourners from the west, and of the poorest house in Washington decked with black.

This is a true national sorrow, he thought.