Excerpt from A Romance of Old New York

The two young men had just turned a corner of State Street, and had come full into view of the Battery, green and breezy, with its flashes from the broad bay beyond, glimpsed between foliage of maple and elm.

"Good-morning, Mr. Burr."

"Good-morning, sir, good-morning."

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