olonel Pendleton's foibles or his assent to the criticisms
of his visitors was the truer. Both were no doubt equally sincere. But the
party was presently engaged in the absorption of refreshmentwhich
being of a purelyspirituous and exhilarating qualitytended to increase
their good humor with the host till they parted. Even then a gratuitous
advertisement of his virtues and their own intentions in calling upon him
was oratorically voiced from available platforms and landingsin the halls
and stairwaysuntil it was pretty well known throughout the Golden Gate
Hotel that the Hon. Mr. Paul Hathaway had arrived from Sacramento and
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had received a "spontaneous ovation."
Meantime the object of it had dropped into an easy-chair by the
window of his roomand was endeavoring to recall a less profitable
memory. The process of human forgetfulness is not a difficult one between
the ages of eighteen and twenty-sixand Paul Hathaway had not only
fulfilled the Mayor's request by forgetting the particulars of a certain
transfer that he had witnessed in the Mayor's officebut in the year
succeeding that requestbeing about to try his fortunes in the mountains
he had formally constituted Colonel Pendleto [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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