A note on L'Enfant's English -- 1. A pedestal waiting for a superstructure -- 2. An infinity of small moments -- 3. A powerful friend among the princes of the earth -- 4. The remembrance of my former services -- 5. In every respect advantageously situated -- 6. A plan wholly new -- 7. The wheel to give motion to the machine -- 8. The whole leveled and thrown to the ground -- 9. Measures of the most immediate moment -- 10. An implicit conformity to his will -- 11. The disappointment of absolute dues -- 12. Getting the go by -- 13. A share in the undertaking -- 14. The assurance of things hoped for -- Epilogue -- Notes