1. What does 'left him even in such high places' mean? (Keogh slipped
into the sinecure of American consulship with the ease that never left
him even in such high places.)
2. What does 'The tintype establishment' mean? (The tintype establishment was soon to become a thing of the past.)
3. What does 'scheme that dwarfed the art of misrepresenting the human
countenance upon tin' mean? (He was figuring in his mind and on quires
of Government letter-heads a scheme that dwarfed the art of
misrepresenting the human countenance upon tin.)
4. I take the long end. What does it mean?
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