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 her in the interest she felt for me, by holding forth the pecuniary advantages to be reaped by assisting us, and represented the attendant risk as too trifling to have any weight with so generous a mind as that of her husband. After some inquiries about Mansell, she left me to my reflections; and, although I was not without apprehension, from Moitier's having so frequently broken his word with Madame Derikre respecting us; yet I was, nevertheless determined, that something decisive should be the result of my trip. At the expiration of half an hour, Moitier introduced himself, and commenced the conversation with relating difficulties innumerable; he represented the chance of detection in favouring the escape of prisoners, greater with him than other people, as he was under the particular "surveillance" of the police; so much so, that his very footsteps were watched; and, that my presence in his house, if discovered, would be the cause of the confiscation of all his property, for which it was impossible I could make any adequate compensation.