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 finding my deaf to his arguments, when away in a pet. Meanwhile, my gain advanced to six pieces, and my desire of more increased in proportion, so that I moved to the higher table, where I laid half-a-guinea at every throw: and fortune still favouring me, I became a sitter in which capacity I remained until it was bread day, when I found myself, after many vicissitudes, one hundred and fifty guineas in pocket.

Happening to inform Banter, that I had received a small supply from a relation in the country, who at the same time had promised to use all his interest in soliciting some post for me. that would make my easy for life: If that be the case, said he, I have a relation who is set out for Bath next week, with an only daughter, who being sickly, intends to drink the waters for the recovery of her health. Her father, who was a rich Turkey merchant, died about a year ago, and left her with a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, under the sole management of her mother, who is my kinswoman. Banter giving me notice of the time when, and the stage-coach in which they were to set out, I bespoke a place in the same conveyance; and having hired a horse for Strap, we set out accordingly some time before day-break.

The approach of discovered to one-another the faces of their fellow travellers; and I had the good fortune to find my  ress