were taxed to the utmost to meet the demand.
While Quincy was fighting Dalton in the political field, another
campaign was being planned in the clever diplomatic brain of Aunt Ella.
It related to the introduction of Alice, the "farmer's daughter," to the
proud patrician family of Sawyer, as Quincy's wife--no easy matter to
accomplish satisfactorily, as all agreed.
The initial step was taken a couple of weeks after Thanksgiving, when a
daintily-engraved card was issued from Mt. Vernon Street, which read:
"Your company is respectfully requested on the evening of the tenth of
December at a reception to be given to Bruce Douglas, the author of
Blennerhassett."
One evening, Quincy ran up the steps of the Mt. Vernon Street house. He
opened the door and started to run up the stairs to his wife's room, as
was his custom, when he came into collision with a young lady, who, upon
closer inspection, he found to be his sister Maude.
"Come in here," she said. She grasped him by the arm, and, dragging him
into the parlor, she closed the door behind him.
"Oh, Mr.
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