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THE MAN OF THE WORLD'. I49
CHAP. XVII r.
The Jlranger relates the hijlcry of his life.
“ J t is now upwards of twenty years
fince I left my native country. You
are too young, fir, to have gained much
Ifnnwlf'rigrp nf monVind., nit. warn yOU,
from fad experience,, to beware of thofe
paffions which at your age I was unable to
refifl:, and which, in the commerce of the
world, will find abundant occafion to
overcome incautious and unexperienced
youth. Start not when I tell you, that
you fee before you one whom the laws of
his country had doomed to expiate his
crimes by death, though from the mercy
of his prince, ..that judgment was miti¬
gated into a term of tranfportation, fome
h 3 time