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"Alas! I am a disgraced man in my own country, and I am labouring here to wipe away a stain I have brought upon my name.

“One of the happiest days in my life was that on which I was able to remit to Paris the first hundred louis d'ors of my saving."

"I leave you to imagine the surprise and gratitude of Salvary, at seeing all the traces of his ruin done away, as it were by the stroke of a pen; and with eagerness he came to return thanks 'o his benefactor."