Whatever abilities I have in me I shall devote to helping
to administer government cleanly. After all, we gave New York a great
object lesson in the possibilities of cleaning out Tammany's pest
house. Perhaps somebody's great-grandchild, inspired by the history of
my attempt will try again and be successful for a longer period. And
oh, woman! It was a gorgeous fight!
"Jonas is delighted that we are returning to Washington. He says we
are to keep house. I am a great responsibility to Jonas. He is very
firm with me, but I think he's as fond of me as I am of him.
"Lucy, how am I to go on, year after year like this, with only my dream
of you? How am I to do my work like a man, with only half a man's life
to live? What can all the admiring plaudits mean to me when I know
that you are only a dream, only a dream?"
Enoch sat forward in his chair, laid the book on the desk, opened to
the last entry and seized his pen.
"So your name is not Lucy, but Diana! Oh, my dearest, and you did not
recognize me at all, while my very heart was paralyzed with emotion!
You must have been a very lovely little girl that the memory of you
should have been so impressed on my subconsciousness. Oh, how
beautiful you are! How beautiful! And to think that I must never let
you know what you are to me.
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