He staid over night.
He took up his board at the house of Samuel Anderson.

Who could resist his entreaty?
Did he not assure them that he felt the need of a home in a cultivated family?
And was it not the one golden opportunity to have the daughter of the house taught music by a private master, and thus give a special _eclat_ to her education?
How Mrs.Anderson hoped that this superior advantage would provoke jealous remarks on the part of her neighbors! It was only necessary to the completion of her triumph that they should say she was "stuck up." Then, too, to have so brilliant a beau for Julia! A beau with watch-seals and a mustache, a beau who had been to Paris with his mother, studied music in the Conservatory at Leipsic, dined with the American minister in Berlin, and done ever so many more wonderful things, was a prospect to delight the ambitious heart of Mrs.Anderson, especially as he flattered the mother instead of the daughter.
"He's a independent citizen of this Federal Union," said Jonas to Cynthy, "carries his head like he was intimately 'quainted with the 'merican eagle hisself.

He's playin' this game sharp.

He deals all the trumps to hisself, and most everything besides.

He'll carry off the gal if something don't arrest him in his headlong career.