Trip 2727 of 4000 collection book15
This would have been an happy vicissitudebook61 of fortune had it not arrived too late but such a sudden and unlookedfor transition not only disordered the faculties of poor Monimiasbook75 mind but also overpowered the organs of her body already fatigued and enfeebled by the distresses she had undergone so that she was taken ill of a fever that same night and became delirious before morning when a physician was called to her assistance. He had no sooner quitted the house than the physician who was a humane man and a foreigner began to caution the lady against his insinuations observing that some circumstances of the story concerning Renaldo were to his particular knowledge contrary to truth for that he himself had been applied to for letters of recommendation in behalf of Count Melvil by a Jew merchant of his acquaintance who had supplied the young gentleman with money sufficient for his occasions in consequence of a minute inquiry he had made into the character of Renaldo who was by all reports a youth of strict honour and untainted morals.... read all
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