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 Hunsden; nobody else can be interested in hearing them.

Accounts being wound up, and our professional connection disposed of, we both agreed that, as Mammon was not our master, nor his service that in which we desired to spend our lives; as our desires were temperate, and our habits unostentatious, we had now abundance to live on—abundance to leave our boy; and should besides always have a balance on hand, which, properly managed by right sympathy and unselfish activity, might help Philanthropy in her enterprises, and put solace into the hand of Charity.

To England we now resolved to take wing; we arrived there safely; Frances realized the dream of her life-time. We spent a whole summer and autumn in travelling from end to end of the British islands; and, afterwards, passed a winter in London. Then we thought it high time to fix our residence; my heart