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 He promised it and was as good as his word. The general received me exceeding well, and I occupied my former post, as serjeant, before a year was elapsed."

Having been sent away with disgrace from H, I had taken a firm resolution to abstain in future from all fraudulent juggling tricks, and kept my resolution firmly a long while, behaving eight years as it meets a good soldier."

"I abstained entirely from art and fraud, minded my duty, and thus ingratiated myself with my superiors to such a degree, that I kept firmly my ground in spite of many complaints which afterwards were made against An unhappy accident induced me to have recourse again to my former juggling tricks, and thus to acquire once more the title of a Necromancer."

"I will tell you all the particulars of that adventure, in order to enliven a little my te-