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It was clear that I must repair to our town next day, and in the first

flow of my repentance, it was equally clear that I must stay at Joe's

But, when I had secured my box-place by to-morrow's coach, and had been

down to Mr Pocket's and back, I was not by any an to invent reasons and

up at the Blue Boar

I should be an inconvenience at Joe's; I was not

expected, and my bed would not be ready; I should be too far frohtn't like it All other

swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such

pretences did I cheatThat I should

innocently take a bad half-crown of soh; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin

of er, under pretence of

co up ives ht of hand to mine,

when I fold upsettled that I o to the Blue Boar, my mind was much

disturbed by indecision whether or not to take the Avenger It was

te his boots