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or another. He never, apparently, was very bowed down by it. He was out of politics completely. It was the men who impeached him who went all to pieces emotionally. They just couldn't bear it. That was the sense I had of him at the time, and as I saw him around the street, in the grocery, going to market and going to the drugstore occasionally - as you see your neighbors, I don't think he was bowled over by it and had a nervous breakdown. His impeachers had a breakdown. Practically every man that voted against him sobbed.
Martin Glynn was a nice, quiet orderly person, very well-disposed, but it was a period in which there were giants in the land. They might be had, or they might be good, but they stood out. You could see them. They gave off sparks occasionally. Martin Glynn was a man totally without any sparks. He never gave off any sparks. As his name is spoken, a picture of him flashes in my mind, as I have a very visual memory, but then it melts. Whereas many of the other people I could describe in detail to this day because they gave off sparks. There was a kind of radiation from them that doesn't disappear from your mind.
Glynn's physical features, expression of face, and method of speaking is so bland and mild that it doesn't hold in memory too correctly or too vividly. But, as I remember it,
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