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 thoughts, and so much were my spirits exhilirated by this pleasing hope, that I worked myself into a belief,, that an opportunity of proving my friendship now presented itself, in order to put its sincerity to the test. With this conviction, all hesitation vanished, and spurning impediments, I determined on the attempt, "coute qui coute." At length, Neirinks, seeing I was not to be averted from the project, resolved to display a degree of "bravoure" on his "début" in this new speculation, and boldly consented to accompany me; as well as to furnish a little cash, clothes, &c. My plan was, to proceed to Brussels, there to procure a "cabriolet," and go on to Givet; leave them in the suburbs, and walk to the house of my old friend Lawmont, a surgeon in the navy, with my face bound up, under pretence of consulting him for the tooth ache; then smuggle a note into the prison to Moyses, desiring him to obtain leave to get into town, under pretence of marketing; and, being escorted by an armed gen d'arme, he, of course, would not be