The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter

F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

Capitolo 52

rather employed round whose arcs were worth at least a quarter
eagle, and relative the history of my adventure to him. The jewels his
shirt was bedazzled with it seemed to make, while its face radiated
I smiled in which was not difficult to read that he put down me
for a simpleton. Him taken the pocket-book in his/her hand, and greeting
me from my military title, churches how much it deposits money my companion of the
adventure proposed to start in Wall Street. Only I remembered then
what the generous individual proposed to start ten or this way;  and, in
sum, that he hocked a half Wall Street that, to any very
distant day, I would be president of these United States.

"The employee smilingly counted now the accounts all of what him
pronounced, to my absolute amazement, on banks in which I/you/they have only existed
the harmful imagination of some rider of the order of
it wanders about that ruled the city, shaping things to his/her liking and
you/he/she was strengthened in a brass castle. I was standing as if you/he/she is pierced through
to the floor. My reputation, my money my hopes of a foreigner
mission-all you/he/she had gone. Me expressed my regret that the men owe
has so small respect for his/her military reputation. The employee,
however it assuaged me on that point, affirming that nothing in the
world was easier than to be a general to New York, and that the
I individualize that had earned a victory on me without doubt it was one of that
the particular kind of military heroes so numerously dispersed around
all the road angles of Broadway, and what time and then it finds him/it
good for their health and the courage to take a trip to Europe, where
titles command the best attention. As for the Quaker, Greely
Hanniford, he without doubt was a greater of the division of the General.

"I was anxious to hold this matter as calm as possible, while the being born
loss as a philosopher, and never forming a decision in my mind
again to be taken in from a general New York. I observed, however,
what a two bearded vagrant (so at least me I took them for) in hats
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