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WHEREIN THE CAPTIVE RELATES HIS LIFE AND ADVENTURES

My fae in the enerous to it than fortune; though in

the general poverty of those co even

a rich man; and he would have been so in reality had he been as clever in

preserving his property as he was in spending it This tendency of his to

be liberal and profuse he had acquired fro been a soldier in his

youth, for the soldier's life is a school in which the niggard becoal; and if any soldiers are to be

found who are misers, they are monsters of rare occurrence My father

went beyond liberality and bordered on prodigality, a disposition by no

eous to a married man who has children to succeed to his

name and position My father had three, all sons, and all of sufficient

age to , then, that he was unable to

resist his propensity, he resolved to divest hiality and lavishness, to divest himself of wealth,

without which Alexander hi us all three aside one day into a roo effect:

"My sons, to assure you that I love you, no more need be known or said

than that you are e a suspicion that I do not

love you, no e that I have no