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( 24 ) dolent life. It would be a very great ſatisfaction for me, as you muſt imagine, to have my children about me: but let that bleſſing, be reſerved for my old age; and as my buſineſs here affords me ſufficient occupation to keep away ennui, write to the worthy Odelman, and tell him, that I give you up to him together with my daughter, for halt a ſcore years ; after which you will return, hope, with a little colony of children; and you and I, in the mean while, ſhall have been labouring for their welfare."

'The Dutchman, overjoyed, returned for anſwer, that his houſe, his arms, his heart, were all open to receive the new-married pair. He expects them; they are going to ſet off, and Oliver will henceforth be in part: nerſhip with him. This is an inſtance of: ſpecies of courage that many unfortunate people are in want of, that of never forfeiting their own eſteem, and that of never deſpairing ſo long as conſcious of their own integrity.

FINIS.

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