...ource of amusement to him, though he had an unaffected sympathy with them in their sorrows. He had a lank, yellow-haired old millwright, who with his young son was working upon his cotton-gin. Mr. Davis found him an original person, and talked very often with the pair. Mr. P. had seen Mr. Davis from time to time very much absorbed in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, and one day requested the loan ...