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discretion, in quitting a certain and 

 well-established concern for an appoint- 

 ment that was quite new to me, and 

 its success uncertain ; thus leaving my- 

 self open to the fate of those, whose 

 interests are generally sacrificed or over- 

 looked, when an accommodation or com- 

 promise takes place between two hostile 

 parties. 



But, indiscretion or not, the change had 

 the recommendation of novelty, and what 

 was my principal object the hours of 

 employment would be more congenial to 

 the wishes and domestic comforts of one 

 who was again desirous of having an 

 establishment of his own, however it 

 might differ from the last in degree; of 

 again living not entirely by or for him- 

 self, but of providing a new home, 

 however humble it might be, for his 

 two children, where he might become 

 again possessed of those social and ra- 



