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 perately ending his life in the waves. When the thanksgiving was pronounced, her cheeks glowed with joy, and she could scarcely conceal her raptures, their meeting afterwards in the church was so expressive, that nobody who had seen it could have misinterpreted it.

From this time forward, Frank again appeared at change, and entered into business. He extended his transactions greatly in a few weeks, and, as his opulence became every day more apparent, his envious fellow-citizens observed, according to the old proverb, that he must have had more luck than sense to get rich in collecting old debts. He took a large house opposite the statue of Sir Roland, in the principal square; engaged clerks and servants, and applied himself with great earnestness to his business. Those miserable races of parasites and toad-eaters, again flocked to his door, and hoped once more to be the partakers of his wealth. But, grown wise by experience, he returned only polite speeches for politeness, and allowed them to depart with an empty stomach, which he found to be a sove-