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Chissy Langhorne [Chiswell Dabney Langhorne] was Irene's father, and was always referred to as Chissy in Baltimore. Everybody came up to Irene and said, “I'm so glad to see you, Irene. I remember your father, Mr. Chissy Langhorne. I remember seeing Mr. Chissy Langhorne run down those steps to take the train to New York. I remember him so well when I was a little boy. He was walking around the monument swinging his cane when you lived in Baltimore.” It was the first time that I'd realized that Mr. Langhorne had moved his family away from Mirador cuite early and had gotten some place where he could make a little money and move in good society. There was a great deal of emphasis on how wonderful Mr. Chissy Langhorne was. Irene, who was a very sophisticated, modern woman, was delighted and pleased to death with all these references to herself and her family, how they all remembered her as a little girl, and her sisters as little girls. The conversation was along that line originally.

Then we got on to Al Smith, the candidates and so forth. Then the conversation became general. By this time we were drinking champagne. All the gentlemen were well-disposed toward the Democratic party. They all declared themselves an true Democrats and so forth.

Then we began to talk about Robert E. Lee. I tried