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^.bout a hundred yards, as i2 it were after us ; but always 

 returning, though at a flower pace. 



None of the reft followed. He was indeed apparently the 

 tool of that rafcal the cadi, and, after his defigns were frus- 

 trated, nobody cared what became of him. He was left in 

 the lurch, as thofe of his character generally are, after ferv- 

 ing the purpofe of knaves* 



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