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(23) a great part of his ready caſh. Many his debtors were dead, many more  in the priſons abroad.—But his  were ready enough to make their appearance: they had heard that his treaty of marriage was broken off; they had heard  on what occaſion. The consequence, that they all fell upon him at once, and both his person and his remaining. Happily, in this exigence, he the man he had once been  to; he thought on Curio: him he  for immediately, gave him full power  act for him, and beſought him to  at bringing his affairs to a compoſition. grateful man engaged himſelf without for the whole, relieved his friend,  him home, called in his debts, and  up the remainder of the payment out  his own fortune. Nor did he ſtop here, taking him aſide one day, "My dear " ſaid he, "there was a time in  you were ſo generous as to offer me a  I had no right to expect.  My  is now as valuable as yours was ; but whereas you owed me nothing, I  but remember, I owe every thing to : my gratitude therefore prompts me to  the ſame kind of offer at this day, as generoſity urged you then to do.— therefore freely, and without ſcruple, equal ſhare of all that your goodneſs has  me to procured."