"
"And mark my words," said Lispenard. "From this day, he'll set no limit
to his endeavors to obtain both."
"He can't work harder than he has to get political power," said an
usher. "Think of how anxious he must have been to get it, when he would
spend so much time in the slums and saloons! He couldn't have liked the
men he met there."
"I've taken him to task about that, and told him he had no business to
waste his time so," said Ogden; "but he said that he was not taking care
of other people's money or trying to build up a great business, and that
if he chose to curtail his practice, so as to have some time to work in
politics, it was a matter of personal judgment."
"I once asked Peter," said Miss De Voe, "how he could bear, with his
tastes and feelings, to go into saloons, and spend so much time with
politicians, and with the low, uneducated people of his district. He
said, 'That is my way of trying to do good, and it is made enjoyable to
me by helping men over rough spots, or by preventing political wrong.
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