He possessed the six attributes of the adventurer—a memory for names and faces, with the aptitude for altering his own; the gift of tongues; inexhaustible invention; secrecy; the talent for falling into conversation with strangers; and that freedom from conscience that springs from a contempt for the dozing rich he preyed upon.
While reading this book I am also reading the tenth of an eleven volume series by Upton Sinclair. The main character is a man named Lanny Budd. Sinclair has never called him an adventurer but he is rich in all these attributes.
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