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 taken out againſt him. The unexpected news of this fatal event, inſtantly broke his mother's heart, nor did the old gentleman ſurvive her long. HercuponHereuopon [sic], our heir was obliged to ſell the perſonal and mortgage the real eſtate, to procure his liberty, and to ſatisfy the aſſignees. In this ſinking situation, after the days of mourning were over, he left the houſe his father lived in, and returned again to London, where he purchaſed a handſome equipage, commenced the fine gentleman, frequented balls, maſquerades, play-houſes, routs, drums, &c. &c and cut as good a figure as the beſt of them. But here let us leave him for a while, and turn our eyes to a worthier object.

In the ſame ſpace of time, which Mr Froward took to ſquander away a good eſtate, Mr Thoroughgood, had, by his own induſtry, and from a ſmall fortune, gained one conſiderably better, and was in a fair way cf increaſing it. The former made