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270 live with me henceforth, and share all that you have made me worth."

"No, dat cannot be," said he, wiping tears from his eyes; "I must refuse Massa dat, and return to de Cape, now my business is done dat brought me from it. De gratitude due to my wife says, Robert should never forsake de spot where her ashes lay."

Admiring a sentiment, which he found to be too strongly ingrafted to meet with opposition in one of such a decided firmness as Robert, the General, with the utmost persuasion of reasoning of which he was capable, could not prevail upon the self-devoted black to accept out of what had belonged to himself more than £2000, upon which he declared he should be rich, as it would bring him in about an income of £100 per annum, and much more than ample for his greatest wants. This being settled, the General opened his arms to embrace him who had manifested towards him an act so generous, great, and noble! He could scarcely believe but that it was a dream, to be so suddenly enriched through the instrumentality of his former servant—his faithful Robert.

Reflecting upon this singular adventure, he strolled on, and bent his steps to Grosvenor-square, to the residence of his sister—to that house containing for the most part the splendid furniture, portraits, plate, the property of the late Sir Aubrey, and to which, by legal right of primogeniture, he was heir; having, however, passed from him to his sister,