Congress? If it is because he has a
majestic appearance and can talk a great deal, women certainly can
fulfill these conditions, and that by your own account of them."
To which Mr. Tarbell would answer, "Exactly, my love, by all means; and
so is your friend Mrs. Pegley a great talker, and a fine-looking woman."
"Then give her all the rights you give to Mr. Pope," cried Mrs. Tarbell.
"She shall have 'em, and welcome," said Tarbell; but he did not tell his
wife that he had voted for Mr. Pope on the opposition ticket, and had
even consulted him on matters of business,--once going so far as to
suggest to him that a certain proposed alteration in the tariff would
seriously affect the mourning-goods industry,--from which it may be
gathered that it was not from any lack of prudence that Mr. Tarbell died
a bankrupt and left his widow to become a lady-lawyer.
Mr. Pope himself it was who betrayed Mr. Tarbell's confidence and opened
Mrs. Tarbell's eyes. "Your husband was my very good friend, my dear
madam," said the Honorable Franklin, "and I was proud to call him my
client. Yes, I had the honor of advising him in several matters and of
carrying through some rather delicate negotiations for him. A man of the
strictest integrity, ever genial and urbane, of sound judgment and
independent views, endowed with strong common sense and quick
perceptions. You see, I had the highest opinion of Mr. Tarbell, and have
often wished to tell his widow--alas that I should have to call her
so!--how certain I am that she will succeed in the career she has
chosen, and how deeply I grieve that her husband could not have lived to
find in her a better adviser than I ever could have been to him."
Messrs.--I mean Mrs. and Mr.--Tarbell and Juddson were just moving into
their new offices when Mr. Pope uttered these kind wishes. He met Mrs.
Tarbell on the door-step: he was standing there, indeed, when she came
in. He was always standing on the door-step: he carried on most of his
business, especially with the po
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