Return to his life of adventures, when the great gentlemen of the district were becoming interested in his personality!...

Perhaps in the next elections they might have made him a member of the municipal council! Ferragut laughed at his cousin's simplicity.

He wanted to command a vessel again, but one of his own, without being obliged to consider the restrictions of the ship owners.

He could permit himself this luxury.
It would be like an enormous yacht, ready to set forth according to his tastes and convenience, yet at the same time bringing him in untold profits.

Perhaps his son might in time become director of a maritime company, this first ship laying the foundation of an enormous fleet in the years to come.
He knew every port in the world, every highway of traffic, and he would be able to find the places where, lacking transportation facilities, they paid the highest freight rates.