But this good old Mr. Woodhouse, I wish you had heard his gallant speeches to me at dinner.

不过，这位善良的伍德豪斯老先生，你要是听见他吃饭时对我讲的那番献殷勤的话就好了。

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Baxter was among the 6, 000 Democratic Party faithful who met at the annual Jefferson Jackson dinner, where speeches by New York Sen.

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And though we reluctantly learned a lot from the speeches that arose unbidden from his own bully pulpit at the head of the dinner table, we learned far more through the daily osmosis of his self sacrificing example.

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