His friends, I remember, were told that they would find Sumner a man of the world, like the rest: ‘’Tis quite impossible to be at Washington and not bend; he will bend, as the rest have done.’ Well, he did not bend.
Sumner reflects on the expectations of him to conform, which he ultimately did not.
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