"Fink only half belongs to us, and has been here but a short time.

He was brought up in New York, and his father has sent him here to be made a rational being." "Is he not rational, then ?" inquired Anton, with some curiosity.
"Why, he is too wild, too full of mischief--else, a pleasant fellow enough.

And now come with me; I have invited all our gentlemen to tea, that they may make your acquaintance." Mr.Jordan's room was the largest of those appropriated to the clerks, and having a piano-forte and a few arm-chairs, it was occasionally used as a drawing-room.
Here, then, the gentlemen were sitting and standing, awaiting the new-comer.

Anton went through the ceremony of introduction with becoming gravity, shaking each of them by the hand, and asking for their good-will and friendly assistance, as he had been but little in the world, and was totally inexperienced as to business.

This candor produced a favorable impression.