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 ‘I endeavoured to learn what had induced him to live in Holland. He answered, it was misfortune,’ and in every thing that to himself, I thought I perceived, that  did not wish to come to an explanation.

‘In the mean time, we spent all the time could spare together; and with a  that my curiosity might sometimes, but never exhausted, he gave me  relative to whatever was  in Holland.

‘You may be sure I began to conceive a affection for him. This is an young man, said I to Odelman,  I have the greatest reason to speak in  favour. It was, doubtless, you that him to shew me such attention.’—“Not at all,” answered he; but you are  Frenchman, and he idolizes his country,  am very glad, however, to profit by its, for it has few more such to boast of. He an assemblage of every estimable quality. sense, fidelity, indefatigable, expertness in business, an extreme and nicety of perception; a  of method which nothing can ; and, above all, an economy—Ah! is the man, indeed, that knows the value money.’

The last article of his eulogium was not my taste; and, in his excuse, I observed,  it was allowable in the unfortunate to