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and were Inftantly off. Arrived at the houfc 
of my friend, the firft objeds that fainted my 
eyes were his trunks and packages colleded* 
together to be conveyed on board the fhip ; 
which, as I learned from himfelf, was to I'ail 
the next day. In vain had- the phyficians re- 
prefented that his health was in too feeble a 
ftate to encounter fo tedious a voyage ; that- 
he ought firft to fpend two or three months 
in the cpuntry to regain the necefTary flrength ; 
and that the fliip, beficles, in which he pur- 
pofed to embark, being too fmall to admit ©f 
the proper accommodations, he was raihiy ex- 
pofing himfelf to almoft certain death : nothing 
could diffuade him. Prejudiced againft a coun- 
try in which he had experienced a variety of 
troubles, and which were likely to increafe, he- 
longed for the moment of withdrawing from 
it. In Holland, too, he had left a refpedlable 
father, whofe image was alive in his heart, 
and his feparation from whom he had always 
regretted. In a word, he preferred the hap- 
pinefs of feeing his family to the cares and 
anxieties which accompany wealth and follow 
in the train of empty honours. 
Subjedt, myfelf, to funilar recolledions, and 
capable, 
