"The mountain in the sunset had stopped the five couriers in a conversation. It is a sublime sight likely to stop conversation. The mountain being now out of the sunset they resumed. Not that I had heard any part of their previous discourse; for indeed I had not then broken away from the American gentleman in the travellers parlour of the convent who sitting with his face to the fire had undertaken to realise to me the whole progress of events which had led to the accumulation by the Honourable Ananias Dodger of one of the largest acquisitions of dollars ever made in our country."