The Scarlet Letter

What gifts suit the "man of business" to his job?

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"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."

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The Scarlet Letter/ Introduction