their wants. They have all been readers  from their youth 
     up; and there are few subjects upon which they cannot 
     converse with you, whether of a political or scientific 
     nature. At any rate, they always hear  with patience. I do 
     not know what I ever heard a native American interrupt 
     another man while he was speaking. Their sedateness  and 
     coolness , the deliberate  manner in which they say and do 
     every thing, and the slowness  and reserve  with which they 
     express their assent; these are very wrongly estimated, 
     when they are taken for marks of a want of feeling . It 
     must be a tale of woe indeed, that will bring a tear from 
     an American’s eye; but any trumped up story will send his 
     hand to his pocket, as the ambassadors from the 
     beggars of France, Italy and Germany can fully testify.
          357. However, you will not, for a long while, know 
     what to do for want of the quick responses  of the English