Senator North Author:Gertrude Atherton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " I am not expecting to fall in love with any of them. I merely discovered some time since that I had a brain, and they happen to be the impulse that possesses i... more »t. You always have prided yourself that I am intellectual, and so I am in the flabby ' well-read ' fashion. I feel as if my brain had been a mausoleum for skeletons and mummies; it felt alive for the first time when I began to read the newspapers in England. I want no more memoirs and letters and biographies, nor even of the history that is shut up in calf-skin. I want the life of to-day. I want to feel in the midst of current history. All these men here in Washington must be alive to their finger-tips. Sally Carter admires Senator North and Senator Maxwell immensely." " What does she say about politicians in general ? " Mrs. Madison looked almost' distraught. " Of course the Norths and the Maxwells come of good New England families — I never did look down on the North as much as some of us did; after all, nearly three hundred years are very respectable indeed — and if these two men had not been in politics I should have been delighted to receive them. I met Senator North once — at Bar Harbor, while you were with the Carters at Homburg — and thought him charming ; and I had some most interesting chats with his wife, who is much the same sort of invalid that I am. But when I establish a standard I am consistent enough to want to keep to it. I asked you what Sally Carter says of the others." " Oh, she admits that there may be others as con- venable as Senator North and Senator Maxwell, and that there is no doubt about there being many bright men in the Senate; but she ' does not care to know chapter{Section 4any more people.' Being a good cave-dweller, she is true to her traditions." " People will say you are pas...« less