ther prize worth
striving for? The design?--one thought of moderate Liberty and the head
of Washington, another thought of Liberty and the head of Jefferson,
another of License and a head like Danton's, another of Empire and a
conqueror's head.

In Albemarle, at all Republican gatherings the man most in demand was
Lewis Rand; and the surrounding counties of Fluvanna, Amherst, Augusta,
and Orange considered themselves happy if he could be drawn to this or
that mass meeting. It was not easy to attract him. He never consciously
said to himself, "Be chary of favours; they will be the more prized"; he
said instead, "I'll not waste an arrow where there's no gold to hit."
When he saw that it was worth his while to go, he went, and sent an
arrow full into the gold. Amherst and Augusta, Fluvanna and Orange,
broke into applause and prophecy, while upon each return home
Republican Albemarle welcomed him with added rapture, and Federalist
Albemarle hurled another phrase into its already comprehensive anathema.
His reputation grew amain, both in his native section and in the state
at large. Before the autumn his election to the House of Delegates,
which in April seemed so great a thing, began to assume the appearance
of a trifle in his fortunes. He would overtop that, and how highly no
man was prepared to say. Through all the clashing of shields, through
Republican attack and Federalist resistance, through the clamour over
Hamilton's death, the denunciation and upholding of Burr, the
impeachment of Chase, the situation in Louisiana, the gravitation
towards France, and the check of England, the consciousness of Pitt and
the obsession of Napoleon,--through all the commotion and fanfaronade of
that summer Rand kept a steady hand and eye, and sent his arrows into
the gold. In the law, as in politics, he was successful. A comprehensive
knowledge and an infinite painstaking, a grasp wide and firm, a somewhat
sombre eloquence, a personal magnetism virile and compelling,--these and
other attributes began to make his name resound. He won his cases, until
presently to say of a man, "He has Lewis Rand," was in effect to
conclude the matter. He had no Federalist clients; that rift widened and
deepened. Federalist Albemarle meant the Churchills and the Carys, their
kinsmen, connections, and friends. The gulf seemed fixed.

Jacqueline, keeping at home in the house on the Three-Notched Road, saw
very few from out her old life. Those who had been