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Rh from the apartment, when De Brooke, recovering his articulation, called after him to return: he did so.

"My honest fellow," said De Brooke, endeavouring to command himself, "why precipitate yourself away from me? why such haste? I have something more to tell you; I cannot immediately; my memory has been impaired of late; wait awhile longer."

De Brooke paused to ruminate concerning the wages due to Robert. At last, in the fulness of awakened energy, starting from his seat, a sudden recollection seized him.

"I hope I may not be deceived," exclaimed he, lifting himself upon a chair; and raising his head above a beam, projecting just over the head of his bedstead, leaving a space between that and the ceiling, his hand laid hold of a book; he opened it, and to his inexpressible joy found what he then perfectly well recollected to have deposited there for safety, being destined for the purpose to which he was then applying it; the remnant of what he had lost by the robbery he had sustained.

The several bank notes amounted to thirty pounds: reserving but a few for his pressing necessities, he put the remainder into the hands of Robert, saying, "'Tis but a trifle, and but ill