He tried to pass off the imitation Rolex as genuine.

Not that he was what is commonly called a Screw; that is to say he was not a mere screw; but he was acute and malicious; saw everybody's worth and position at a glance; could not bear to expend his choice wines and costly viands on hangers-on and toad-eaters, though at the same time no man encouraged and required hangers-on and toad-eaters more.

Under the system which Governor Hughes professes to regard as more representative, Wisconsin is represented in the Federal Senate by an adroit grandiloquist and a multi-millionaire destitute of a single qualification for his high office.

This seen in the clear air, and the whole spiritualized by endless recollections, fills the eye and the heart more forcibly than I can find words to say.