Bassett undoubtedly expected to reap some benefit from his services, and such services would not, of course, be in the line of the law.

They were much more likely to partake of the function of journalism, in obtaining publicity for such matters as Bassett wished to promulgate.

The proposed new office at the capital marked an advance of Bassett's pickets.

He was abandoning old fortifications for newer and stronger ones, and Dan's imagination kindled at the thought of serving this masterful general as aide-de-camp.
He took a long walk, thinking of Bassett's offer and trying to view it from a philosophical angle.

The great leaders in American politics had come oftener than not from the country, he reflected.