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 desires, and to be received with pleasure: My resolution cost me but very little, and I exclaimed, after a moment's consideration, I will stay with you, comrades, if you will cede to me my beautiful neighbour."

"All of them agreed to content to my request, and I became unexpectedly the avowed possessor of a we, and the chief of a gang of robbers!"

"To be revenged on the prince, in whose dominions I had suffered so much disgrace, was the chief desire of my heart, and to effect that purpose the first use I made of my new acquired authority. Our gang consisted in eight stout fellows besides myself, the rest was composed of women and children: My new associates had contented themselves 'till I was joined to their society, with clandestine depredations in the pantries and cellars of the rich peasants, and game-stealing, and never had recourse