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ing me off to prison, and, as he thought, 

 to death. I would then start up in terror 

 to find myself bathed in cold perspiration, 

 and this would occur two or three times 

 a week. I told my friend Smith about it, 

 and he did what he could for me by 

 keeping me amused till the small hours. 

 We used to play ecarte, back-gammon, or 

 any thing else to make the night pass 

 quickly, and I found that by going to bed 

 very late that I had not these painful dreams, 

 and having once discovered the remedy, 

 I did not fail to put it into practice. 



Sometimes my chum would get a return 

 of his fever, when he would have to go to 

 bed at nine or ten o'clock, on which 

 occasions I used to sit in my arm chair in 

 front of the fire all night, not going to 

 bed till the servants were up in the morn- 

 ing, and at their work dusting and clean- 



