All his own schemes took larger shape and more misty and majestic proportions; and in this congenial air, the Colonel seemed even to himself to expand into something large and mysterious.

If he respected himself before, he almost worshipped Beriah Sellers now, as a superior being.

If he could have chosen an official position out of the highest, he would have been embarrassed in the selection.

The presidency of the republic seemed too limited and cramped in the constitutional restrictions.

If he could have been Grand Llama of the United States, that might have come the nearest to his idea of a position.