High Jack had been drinking too much rum ever since we landed in Boca. You know how an Indian is—the palefaces fixed his clock when they introduced him to firewater.

What though now they are acharné, yet brothers and sisters must at last be reconciled, and they will give each other the preference to French, Spaniards, etc.

It was an agonizing twenty-minute wait for the results.

I think that Dante's more abstruse ecstatics / Meant to personify the Mathematics.