They often talked of their country, of the friends whom they had left, of the grandeur of the American Republic, whose influence could not but increase; and Cyrus Harding, who had been much mixed up with the affairs of the Union, greatly interested his auditors by his recitals, his views, and his prognostics.
Hablaban siempre de su patria, de los amigos que habían dejado en ella y de la grandeza de la República Norteamericana, cuya influencia no podía menos de acrecentarse.