Vidal Gore — Eighteen Seventy [2268]

Of course Mr. Blaine may have been a little bit careless, now and then, along the way, ’cause he’s got no head for business, you know. And he certainly made a big mistake when he took that mortgage for his Fifteenth Street house—a very good investment, by the way—from Mr. Jay Cooke. — Vidal Gore, Eighteen Seventy, 2268

Note

The narrator’s shift from describing Puss’s rhetoric to acknowledging his own amusement at her innocence reveals layers of social commentary and irony, making the passage rich in character dynamics.