I felt strong when I left the house.

Now I was not sure how long I should feel so.

Mr.Brooks invited me to have a seat; and after a few words about the heat and the cholera he began to tell me stories of the people and the country.

"Some years ago," he said, "a man came to this country, I mean over around the river country which you saw when you took the steamboat at Bath.

He didn't have anything, but he was ambitious to be rich.