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When a reat and totally unexpected

reverse of fortune, has been swept from one plane of existence

to another, that he should fail at once to recognize the full

e is but natural, for his faculties must

of necessity be numbed more or less by its very suddenness

Yesterday I had been reduced from affluence to poverty with an

unexpectedness that had dazed o, I now found myself reduced to an

utter destitution, without the ithal to pay for thethe careless ease of a few

days since with looht it over, the ht apply to Sir Richard

for assistance, but ht, e; moreover, I had determined,

beforehand, to walk my appointed road unaided frohts I was presently aroused by a loud,

rough voice at no great distance, to which, though I had been dimly

conscious of it for some time, I had before paid no attention

Noever, I raised my eyes from the spot upon the floor where

they had rested hitherto, and fixed them upon the speaker