The American Senator

The Senator for Mickewa,--whose name we have taken for a book which might perhaps have been better called "The Chronicle of a Winter at Dillsborough"--did not stay long in London after the unfortunate close of his lecture. He was a man not very pervious to criticism, nor afraid of it, but he did not like the treatment he had received at St. James's Hall

Arabella/Rufford comedy yields to Senator exit after lecture flop — title plot closed by departure — so plot scores 87.

Mr. Elias Gotobed, who was coming, was perhaps the most distinguished American of the day, and was Senator for Mickewa. "Mickey war!" said poor Mrs. Hopkins,--"that's been one of them terrible American wars we used to hear of." Then Tankard explained to her that Mickewa was one of the Western States and Mr. Elias Gotobed was a great Republican

Gotobed misheard as war — comic introduction of outsider cast against English servants — so cast scores 88.

While these great efforts were being made by Arabella Trefoil at Mistletoe, John Morton was vacillating in an unhappy mood between London and Bragton. It may be remembered that an offer was made to him as to the purchase of Chowton Farm.

Mid-book splits Arabella Mistletoe push and Morton vacillation — parallel dilation — so pace scores 85.

I never could understand why anybody should ever have begun to live at Dillsborough, or why the population there should have been at any time recruited by new comers. That a man with a family should cling to a house in which he has once established himself is intelligible.

Topographical bafflement as comic thesis — county prose before Senator arrives — so prose scores 87.

The phaeton arrived the first, the driver having been especially told by Arabella that he need not delay on the road for the other carriage. She had calculated that she might make her entrance with better effect alone with her mother than in company with Morton and the Senator.

Rufford entrance staged against Senator company — hunting-hall England as marriage theatre — so world scores 89.

I never could understand why anybody should ever have begun to live at Dillsborough, or why the population there should have been at any time recruited by new comers.

Place-puzzle before persons — chronicle hooked as geography joke — so hook scores 86.

"If I see a man hungry in the street," said the Senator, instigated by the question asked him at the end of the last chapter, "and give him a bit of bread, I don't do it for my own sake but for his." Up to this time the Britishers around him on the platform and those in the benches near to him, had received what he said with a good grace.

Visiting Senator as lecture-form critic of English charity — Anglo-American satire inside county novel — so innov scores 90.

The Senator for Mickewa,--whose name we have taken for a book which might perhaps have been better called "The Chronicle of a Winter at Dillsborough"--did not stay long in London after the unfortunate close of his lecture.

Author renames book as he exits the Senator — subject confessed as county winter — so ending scores 88.