Then for ten years in Philadelphia.
"And then?"
Why, then, for forty years more, down to that present 1852, in New Orleans, while nevertheless, save for the last ten, he had sojourned much abroad in many ports and capitals, but mainly in Paris.
The girl's note of mirth softly persisted, irrepressible but self-oblivious, a mere accent of her volatile emotions, most frequent among which was a delighted wonder in looking on the first man of foreign travel, first world-citizen, with whom she had ever awarely come face to face. So guessed the youth, well pleased.
Presently, as if she too had guessed something, she asked if the boat's master was not this man's son.
He now running it? Yes, he was.
"And was he, too, born in England?—or in Holland?"
"In Philadelphia, 1803."
"And did he, too, marry a—Dutch—wife?"
"No, a young lady of Philadelphia, in 1832; an American."