You say the other party will come in.'
'That is most probable,' said Silverbridge.
'With us the other party never comes in,--never has a chance of
coming in,--except once in four years, when the President is
elected. That one event binds us for four years.'
'But you do change your ministers,' said Tregear.
'A secretary may quarrel with the President, or he may have the
gout, or be convicted of peculation.'
'And yet you think yourselves more nearly free than we are.'
'I am not so sure of that. We have had a pretty difficult task,
that of carrying on a government in a new country, which is
nevertheless more populous than almost any old country. The
influxions are so rapid, that every ten years the nature of the
people is changed. It isn't easy; and though I think on the whole
we've done pretty well, I am not going to boast that Washington is
as yet a seat of political Paradise.'
CHAPTER 77
'Mabel, Good-Bye'
When Tregear first came to town with his arm in a sling, and
bandages all round him,--in order that he might be formally
accepted by the Duke,--he had himself taken to one other house
besides the house in Carlton Terrace.
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