Part 33 (2/2)

I therefore returned, related the story of the robbery, and added that 'my intentions were to have endeavoured to afford some small recompence, for the unintentional injury I had committed I was sorry that, at present, this accident had deprived me of the power: but I hoped I should not always be so very destitute I certainly should neither forget the debt I had incurred, nor the noble behaviour of the man who had suffered so much from me At present I was very unfortunate: but, if ever I should becoation, and in what ed'

I was heard with patience, and with no disappointh poor, were far from selfish Beside, as I had not previously declared what I had intended, I had excited little expectation My vanquished opponent, whose name was Clarke, was soothed by the justice I did hie; and said 'I had given him the satisfaction of a man, and that was all he asked' He rather syave various indications of a generous spirit, such as is seldohly disgraced by any comparison between theree of esteem, such as neither the lord nor the bishop I had once been so willing, or rather so industrious, to revere had the good fortune to inspire

Having said every thing I could recollect, to reht have excited against , and consider as best to be done

The probability of tracingthe bank note, a considerable portion of which by the bye was due to hiested itself I recollected that when I rose, after ht the breakfast; and hadthe perturbation of my mind I had hastily devoured the bread and butter that was on the table, and drank a single bason of tea; after which he enquired as I went out, when I should be back? And I had answered, in a wild manner, 'I did not know

Perhaps never'

Froree of interest that he had shewn, the robbery appeared theand coer to pursue, and have hi as a very excellent thing

Beside, I had not the means of pursuit: I had noby the first stage-coach that passed, was now beyond e my debts? What was to become of me? I could find no solution to these difficulties I was oppressed by them I earied by the excess of action on my body, as well asmyself, and fell into a profound sleep

CHAPTER IV

_A fever: Bad ood qualities: More proofs of co: Farewell to Bath_

The e except the bread and butter Iday at dinner) the heats into which my violent exertions had thrown me, and the sudden reverse of cold to which my ht easily have been foreseen: I awoke, in the dead of thefits, , a sickness at my stomach, my head intolerably heavy, anda sensation as if they were ready to burst To all this was added the stiffness that pervaded the muscles ofthey had received

It ith difficulty I could undresswith increasing violence I know not how long, ed into all the soreness, pains, and burning, that denote a violent fever

During this paroxysm, I felt consolation from its excess; which persuaded s, which I conceived ht; arising from the persuasion that, in my loss, the world would be punished for the vileness of its injustice toward one, there will be a chasm, which no other mortal can supply; and I a men of active and iree

All that I can reer of it were over, is, that the people of the house ca, I knew not at what hour, and made some enquiries A deliriu of my convalescence, I had absolutely lost my memory; and could not without effort recollect where I was, how I had come there, or what had befallen me The first objects that forcibly arrested my attention, and excited me byto console me

The particulars which I afterward learned were, that Belmont had come, the first day of my illness; had seenbeen robbed, and had left a twenty-pound note for my immediate necessities

So true is it that the licentious, the depraved, and the unprincipled are susceptible of virtue; and desirous of conorant only are theless than idiotism, or ood

I was further informed that a sealed paper, addressed to Mr Trevor, had been received, and opened in the presence of the physician, containing another twenty-pound bank-bill; but the paper that inclosed it was blank: and that Clarke, unable to go i on what he had heard froer in Bath, was left by the robbery of my servant, had walked out the next day, had come with fear and diffidence to enquire after h fever, his wife had been e fa alith ed to be hired: but she was by reatest part of every day; and her husband the saain able to work; after which he never failed to coenerous fellow I had won his heart, by my desire to do hiree of adoration in hientleman He had visitedthe landlady talk of sending me to the hospital, had proposed to take ht do a Christian part by ers

And here, as they are intimately connected with my own history, it is necessary I shouldOlivia

Hector and Andrews had been busy, in collecting all the particulars they could, relating to est rumours ran: of which these my fast friends were predisposed to select the most unfavourable, and to believe and report them as true All of these they carried to Olivia, and her aunt; and the chief of them were, that I had falsely accused a ed him to the water, and had been the principal person in ducking him to death The brother of this man had discovered who I was; and had followed istrate: but I had artfully talked to the people round un to beat and ill use the brother They added that I had stripped like a common bruiser, of which character I was aht with uncommon bravery; that he had been treated with foul play, by me and my abettors; and that, in conclusion, I had killed him: that, in addition to this, I had prevented a subscription, for theand _nine_ young children, which had been proposed by theed him to box with me, for this their charitable endeavour to relieve theand her children; and that, having lost ht before in their presence, I should probably run away frohwayh