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( 15 ) nd prepoſſeſſed with a ſentiment of eſteem my favour, he conſented to put me to a rial, but without any fixed engagement. He ſoon perceived that there was not in his Mounting-houſe a man of more aſſiduity, nor more emulous of gaining information.

'Oliver,' ſaid he, (for that was the only name I had taken) 'you have kept your word. Go on, I ſee you will ſuit me; we are formed for each other. There is one quarter of our firſt year's ſalary. I hope, and I fore- ee, that it will go on in a progreſſive increaſe.'

'Ah! ſir, I, who had never in my life nown the value of money, with what joy id I ſee myſelf maſter of the hundred ducats e had preſented me with? With what care id I lay by the greater part of this ſum? With what ardour did I devote myſelf to hat induſtry of which it was the fruits! nd with what impatience did I wait for e other three quarters of my ſalary that ere to increaſe this treaſure?

'One of the happieſt days in my life was hat on which I was able to remit to Paris the firſt hundred louis d'ors of my ſavings. When the receipt came back, I kiſſed the aper a hundred times. and bedewed it ith my tears. I laid it upon my heart, nd felt it like a balm applied to my wounds. 'Three years together I procured the ſame ratification. This gratification is now eightened; for my perquiſites being aug-