Excerpt from The Devil Upon Two Sticks in England, Vol. 2 of 6: Being a Continuation of Le Diable Boiteux of Le Sage
You must know, then, that he has lately inherited a large fortune by the death of his father, who, during his life-time, allowed the young gentleman but a very slender income. At this period, he was most intimately connected, and in a con tinual society with a very worthy man, whose situation was as confined as his own and whenever the narrowness of their present circumstances pressed home upon them, he used incessantly to repeat.
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