Or it was like him who, given a halter, straightway takes a horse.
It is the theory of Europe that Americans are maniacs of money.

European conservatism draws a money-line beyond which it will not pass.

When any man of Europe has a proposal of business too big for the European mouth--wearing its self-imposed half-muzzle of conservatism--that promoter and his proposal head for America.

It was this which gained Washington the advantage of a visit from Storri; his stop in Canada--being a six-months' stay in Ottawa--was only preliminary to his coming here.
While his own people of Russia drew back from those enterprises which Storri's agile imagination had in train, the government at St.
Petersburg, in what was perhaps a natural hope that he might find Americans more reckless, endowed him as he came away with a guarded pat on the back.

The St.Petersburg government advised its representatives in America to introduce without indorsing Storri.
Storri was by no means wise after the manner of a Franklin or a Humboldt or a Herschel; but he did possess the deep sapiency of the serpent or the fox.