. . Let me drop a cutting over the memries of
that night. When my boddy-suvnt came with my ot water in the mawning,
the livid copse in the charnill was not payler than the gashly De la
Pluche!
"'Give me the Share-list, Mandeville,' I micanickly igsclaimed. I had
not perused it for the past 3 days, my etention being engayged elseware.
Hevns & huth!--what was it I red there? What was it that made me spring
outabed as if sumbady had given me cold pig?--I red Rewin in that
Share-list--the Pannick was in full hoparation!
*****
"Shall I describe that kitastrafy with which hall Hengland is familliar?
My & rifewses to cronnicle the misfortns which lassarated my bleeding
art in Hoctober last. On the fust of Hawgust where was I? Director of
twenty-three Companies; older of scrip hall at a primmium, and worth at
least a quarter of a millium. On Lord Mare's day my Saint Helenas
quotid at 14 pm, were down at 1/2 discount; my Central Ichaboes at
3/8 discount; my Table Mounting & Hottentot Grand Trunk, no where; my
Bathershins and Derrynane Beg, of which I'd bought 2000 for the account
at 17 primmium, down to nix; my Juan Fernandez, my Great Central
Oregons, prostrit. There was a momint when I thought I shouldn't be
alive to write my own tail!"
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