One lived in the atmosphere of the Stamp Act, the Tea Tax, and the Boston Massacre. Within Boston, a boy was first an eighteenth-century politician, and afterwards only a possibility; beyond Boston the first step led only further into politics.

一个人生活在印花税法、茶叶税和波士顿大屠杀的氛围中。在波士顿，一个男孩首先是 18 世纪的政治家，之后只是一种可能性；在波士顿之外，第一步只会进一步深入政治。