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Madambook71 Clement thus cautioned entered into deliberation with her own thoughts and comparing the particulars of this account with those of Monimias own storybook61 she concluded that Fathom was the very traitor he himself had described and that he had by abusing the confidence of both effected a fatal breach between two innocent and deserving lovers. Though this was a certain way of retaining the favour of those worthies while his finances continued to flourish and his payments were prompt he knew the weakness of his funds too well to think they could bear the vicissitudes of play and the remembrance of the two British knights who had spoiled him at Paris hung over his imagination with the most frightful presages.... read all
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