One other hero did he place above him--the great commoner after whom he had been christened, Henry Clay Dean. He knew how Clay's life had been devoted to averting the coming war, and how his last days had been darkly shadowed by the belief that, when he was gone, the war must come. At times he could hear that clarion voice as it rang through the Senate with the bold challenge to his own people that paramount was his duty to the nation--subordinate his duty to his State. Who can tell what the nation owed, in Kentucky, at least, to the passionate allegiance that was broadcast through the State to Henry Clay? It was not in the boy's blood to be driven an inch, and no one tried to drive him. In his own home he was a spectre of gnawing anguish to his mother and Margaret, of unspeakable bitterness and disappointment to his father, and an impenetrable sphinx to Dan. For in Dan there was no shaking doubt. He was the spirit, incarnate, of the young, unquestioning, unthinking, generous, reckless, hotheaded, passionate South.
同类推荐
热门推荐
违仙之恋，转世再爱一次
有人问她，什么最后悔，她说，爱上他。有人问他，什么最心痛，他说，杀了她。有人问他们，可愿转世抛开一切，再爱一次。他们说，再愿意不过。前世，他们是仙魔之恋。转世，他们是青梅竹马。如今，他们怎么走过，只看他们的命。但，他们，终将回归仙界……
中国男人的十项处世修炼
本书为您精心选取了一个个生动鲜活的事例，结合各种“武功”招数，以讲故事、说道理的方式，将人生场景中一些蕴涵着潜规则的内容凸现出来，深入演绎各种规则，告诉中国男性成功需要正确认识社会和周围环境中通行的规律和原则。