The Scarlet Letter
What gifts suit the "man of business" to his job?
The Custom House
The Custom House
From the text;
"His gifts were emphatically those of a man of business; prompt, acute, clear-minded; with an eye that saw through all perplexities, and a faculty of arrangement that made them vanish, as by the waving of an enchanter’s wand."
The Scarlet Letter/ Introduction