Henry Adams 



drawing a moral, and to make it 

 stand out more distinctly I have 

 ventured to use Santiago for a back- 

 ground. Much greater persons have 

 done it before me, as you know, with 

 more success than King and I then 

 dreamed of ; but when that man 

 Daniele, if it really was Daniele, told 

 King that the rebellion was coming, 

 it seemed to me that I had better 

 offer no obstacle to leaving our Para- 

 dise. My business was, if I had any 

 business at all, to keep him quiet, 

 away from excitement, out of mis- 

 chief. Remember that King took 

 his companion with him for that pur- 

 pose ; and certainly you do not need 

 to be told that he could not have 

 selected, even among his enormous 

 acquaintance, a more quieting influ- 

 ence than he chose. It stands to 

 reason that if he could have found 

 another peripatetic literary man older 

 than himself, of quieter habits, with 

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