CHAPTER XXII.

NOTED WOMEN OF WASHINGTON—A CHAPTER OF GOSSIP.

A Traveling Lady—Life in Russia—A Modern American Minister—A long

and Lonely Journey—The Court of St James—Peculiar

Waists—Costume of an Ancient _Belle_—Fearful and Wonderful

Attire of a _Beau_—“A suit of Steel”—An Ascendant Star—A Man

Who Hid his Feelings—The Candidate at a Cattle Show—Charles’s

Opinion of His Mother—How a Lady “Amused” Her Declining Days—A

Woman’s Influence—Politics and Piety Disagree—Why the General

Didn’t Join the Church—A Head “Full of Politics”—Swearing

Some—The President Becomes a Good Boy—Domestic Tendencies, 204

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