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 ployed, and gratify your own expectations." I received the papers with such emotions of mingled pride, indignation and love, that I was incapable of speaking. At the door I turned to take a last look, tears gushed from my eyes: "Heaven's bless you!" was all I uttered, and I saw him turn with his handkerchief to his face.

"Thus was I thrown upon the world without any friends or connexions, a degraded, solitary being. I retired to an auberge in the skirts of the town, and began to consider on my situation. Without rank, fortune, or even a name, how could I think of entering into the army? My pride suggested a thousand insupportable slights I might encounter in a public line of life, and those very circumstances attending the late discovery, so humiliating, served only to render my temper more irritable and haughty.—Without being able to fix on any plan, I resolved immediately to quit France, which I did the following day, and travelled through Germany.