This answer produced such an effect upon me, after all my former disappointments, that I felt it all over my frame.

It operated like a sudden shock, which often disables the impressed person for a time.

So the joy I felt rendered me quite useless, as to business, for the remainder of the day.
I began to perceive in a little time the advantage of having cultivated an acquaintance with Thompson of the Seven Stars.

For nothing could now pass in Bristol, relative to the seamen employed in this trade, but it was soon brought to me.

If there was anything amiss, I had so arranged matters that I was sure to hear of it.