quite back-bone enough to slew around and come right out for you on the

first ballot to-morrow; but they're going to vote against you on the

first for the sake of appearances, and then come out for you all in a

body on the second--I've fixed all that! By supper time to-morrow you'll

be re-elected. You can go to bed and sleep easy on that."

After Mr. Noble was gone, the Senator said:

Well, to bring about a complexion of things like this was worth coming

West for."

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The Gilded Age