human
But to the rack I must go, though another San Francisco torture be in store for me. [273] She spoke on
gpt
The Power of the Ballot, on women's right to vote under the Fourteenth Amendment, on the need of women to be self-supporting, and clearly and logically she marshaled her facts and her arguments. Occasionally she obliged with a temperance speech, or gathered women together to talk to them about the social evil, relieved when they responded to this delicate subject with earnestness and gratitude. Practice soon made her an easy, extemporaneous speaker. Yet she was only now and then satisfied with her efforts, recording in her diary,
human
Was happy in a real Patrick Henry speech.
gpt
Horrible indeed are the roads, she wrote her mother,
human
Made my Fourteenth Amendment argument splendidly, she wrote in her diary.
gpt
All delighted with it and me--and it is such a comfort to have the friends feel that I help the good work on.
human
I miss Mrs. Stanton. Still I can not but enjoy the feeling that the people call on me, and the fact that I have an opportunity to sharpen my wits a little by answering questions and doing the chatting, instead of merely sitting a lay figure and listening to the brilliant scintillations as they emanate from her never-exhausted magazine. There is no alternative--whoever goes into a parlor or before an audience with that woman does it at a cost of a fearful overshadowing, a price which I have paid for the last ten years, and that cheerfully, because I felt our cause was most profited by her being seen and heard, and my best work was making the way clear for her.
gpt
On the train she met the new California Senator, Aaron A. Sargent, his wife Ellen, and their children. A warm friendship developed on this long journey during which the train was stalled in deep snow drifts.
human
This is indeed a fearful ordeal, fastened here ... midway of the continent at the top of the Rocky mountains, she recorded.
gpt
The railroad has supplied the passengers with soda crackers and dried fish.... Mrs. Sargent and I have made tea and carried it throughout the train to the nursing mothers.