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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