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She , too , was associated , in my mind with Boston , the wharf from which we sailed , anchorage in the stream , leave-taking , and all such matters , which were now to me like small links connecting me with another world , which I had once been in , and which , please God , I might yet see again . Misfortune , extravagance , and the want of funds , or any manner of getting interest on money , soon eat the estate up , and Don Juan Bandini returned from Mexico accomplished , poor , and proud , and without any office or occupation , to lead the life of most young men of the better families - dissolute and extravagant when the means are at hand ; ambitious at heart , and impotent in act ; often pinched for bread ; keeping up an appearance of style , when their poverty is known to each half-naked Indian boy in the street , and they stand in dread of every small trader and shopkeeper in the place . During all this times , - which would have startled Dr. Graham - we lived upon almost nothing but fresh beef ; fried beefsteaks , three times a day , - morning , noon , and night . It blew a perfect hurricane , with alternate blasts of snow , hail , and rain .