There was nothing that Jeff wouldn't do, to accommodate a friend, from sharing his last dollar with him, to winging him in a duel.

When he understood from Col.

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how the land lay at Stone's Landing, he cordially shook hands with that gentleman, asked him to drink, and fairly roared out, "Why, God bless my soul, Colonel, a word from one Virginia gentleman to another is 'nuff ced.' There's Stone's Landing been waiting for a railroad more than four thousand years, and damme if she shan't have it." Philip had not so much faith as Harry in Stone's Landing, when the latter opened the project to him, but Harry talked about it as if he already owned that incipient city.
Harry thoroughly believed in all his projects and inventions, and lived day by day in their golden atmosphere.

Everybody liked the young fellow, for how could they help liking one of such engaging manners and large fortune?
The waiters at the hotel would do more for him than for any other guest, and he made a great many acquaintances among the people of St.Louis, who liked his sensible and liberal views about the development of the western country, and about St.Louis.

He said it ought to be the national capital.