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 with Concern, that Ditres is more apt to excite Contempt than Commieration, epecially among Men of Buines, with whom Poverty is undertood to indicate Want of Ability. But the little I have been able to leave you, will extricate you from thoe Difficulties with which you have formerly truggled, and then I doubt not but you will meet with ufficient Properity to upply what a Man of your Philoophical Temper will require.

‘I find myelf growing faint, o I hall refer you to my Will for my Dipoition of the Reidue. My Servants will there find ome Tokens to remember me by, and there are a few Charities which, I trut, my Executors will ee faithfully performed. Bles you all. I am etting out a little before you—’

Here a Footman came hatily into the Room, and aid there was an Attorney from Salisbury, who had a particular Meage, which he aid he mut communicate to Mr. Allworthy himelf: That he eemed in a violent Hurry, and proteted he had o much Buines to do, that if he could cut himelf into four Quarters, all would not be ufficient.