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 ceived our company and connexions were necessary for his own convenience, we might have remained in Philippo, and got free how we could."

"I believe you are right in your conclusion," replied Ferdinand; "but through him we did obtain our liberty—and I also owe him obligations for civil treatment and many indulgences; he therefore shall not want in a strange country, while I have the means of preventing it.

"Count Wolfran's character and proceedings is, I think, the strangest medley of follies and inconsistencies I ever heard of; for he was open to detection in every scheme he pursued; and that he carried any plan into execution, appears to me the effect of chance and accident; for there was neither regularity nor decision in any thing he undertook. He is said to have been a very handsome and plausible young man; but surely the most inconsiderate that ever existed, and at an early age, has fallen a sacrifice to his own vices and follies."