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 suits;—and praising, that we had met.

I was obliged to return to town the next morning, and Allan proposed to accompany me.—"Since the death of his Sister," he told me, "he had been a wanderer."

In the course of our walk, he unbosomed himself without reserve—told me many particulars of his way of life for the last nine or ten years, which I do not feel myself at liberty to divulge.

Once, on my attempting to cheer him, when I perceived him over thoughtful, he replied to me in these words: