Author: Samuel Major Gardenhire

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-25

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 9781330587324

Excerpt from Purple and Homespun: A Novel Washington looked larger to him this morning as he paused for a moment beside the great stone pillars of the hotel, his gaze wandering up and down the broad surface of Pennsylvania Avenue. Not larger in a material sense, although it was a city of constant growth, but larger in an aspect of a new responsibility that had come to himself. It seemed, since he had seen it last, to have strangely acquired a dignity to comport with a new dignity that was his own - a sense of something enlarged and broadened, to fit his own enlarged and broadened mind. He was no stranger to it. He had seen the city often in the course of his career, and, in one sense, for years it had been his home. For five terms he had been a congressman, representing here a district of the State for which he was now a Senator. It was the fact that he was a Senator, a fact to which he had not yet accustomed himself, that now impressed him, that came to him with a more overpowering knowledge, since he had had the leisure to think of it. It widened for him the horizon of all the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.