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 you die like an honet man, in the other like a malefactor. Mere prejudice! exclaimed he: what harm can there be in tamping a mark upon a bit of metal? Ephraim the Jew has tamped plenty with the ame mark as ours: what is lawful for one man to do, can be no in in another.

In hort the man’s way was o peruaive, that I could not help accepting his propoal. I oon became expert at the buines, and, in obedience to my father’s injunctions, drove it on with pirit while I was at it. The making of money I found far more profitable than the making of pures. But, while we were going on with all poible ucces, the jealouy of trade was awakened. Ephraim raied a violent perecution

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