Excerpt from The House of Cards: A Record
Linsey discharges the duties Of his position with efficiency and grace. I could wish, indeed, that a like ambition to shine in foreign parts would possess another son, Horace, whom we call sport ing Hod, and whom some Of us would willingly contemplate through the haze Of one or more severing seas - Oh, he apologized humbly for the cigar trick, - yes, yes: I have forgiven and for got forgiven long ago.
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