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ftill have left.”—He took a large ftride
—“ Powers of mercy that firrround me!
cry’d he, do ye not fmileupon deeds like
thefe ? to calculate the chances of decep¬
tion is too tedious a bufmefs for the life
of man !” The clock ftruck ten !
When he was got down (lairs, he found
that he he had forgot the note of her lodg¬
ings ; he gnawed his lips at the delay:
he was fairly on the pavement, when
he recolledted having left his purfe j he
did but juft prevent himfelf from ar¬
ticulating an imprecation. He rufhed
a fecond time up into his chamber*-
“ What a wretch I am, faid he; ere
this time perhaps —” It was a per
haps not to be borne : two vibrations
of a pendulum would have ferved him
to lock his bureau ^ but they could
not be fpared.
When he reached the houfe, and in¬
quired for Mifs Atkins, for that was the
lady’s name, he was (hewn up three pair
of