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I had ordered somebook33 of those jewels which I had borrowed of my good friend Fathom to be new set in a fashionable taste and soonbook51 after had an opportunity to sell one of these at a great advantage to one of the fraternity who offered an extraordinary price for the stone on purpose to effect my ruin. Had my conscience been clear of any other impeachment perhaps I should have rested my cause upon the equity and protection of the law but I foresaw that the trial would introduce an inquiry to which I was not at all ambitious of submitting and therefore was fain to compromise the affair at the price of almost my whole fortune.... read all
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