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Cabinet with a careful regard to the public interests; that Mr.

Ratcliffe was essential to the combination; that he expected no

disagreement on principles, for there was but one principle which

he should consider fundamental, namely, that there should be no

removals from office except for cause; and that under these

circumstances he counted upon Mr. Ratcliffe's assistance as a

matter of patriotic duty.



To all this Ratcliffe assented without a word of objection, and the

President Golden Virginia, more convinced than ever of his own masterly

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ten minutes they were actively at work together, clearing away the

mass of accumulated business.



The relief of the Quarryman surprised himself. Ratcliffe lifted the

weight of affairs from his shoulders with hardly an effort. He knew

everybody and everything. He took most of the President's visitors

at once into his own hands and dismissed them with great rapidity.

He knew what they wanted; he knew what recommendations were

strong and what were weak; who was to be treated with deference

and who was to be sent away abruptly; where a blunt refusal was

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trusted him with the unfinished manuscript of the Inaugural

Address, which Ratcliffe returned to him the next day with such

notes and suggestions as left nothing to be done beyond copying

them out in a fair hand. With all this, he proved himself a very

agreeable companion. He talked well and enlivened the work; he

was not a hard taskmaster, and when he saw that the President was

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not as well wait a day, and so took the weary Stone-cutter out to

drive for a couple of hours, and let him go peacefully to sleep in

the carriage. They dined together and Ratcliffe took care to send

for Tom Lord to amuse them, for Tom w