Trip 4476 of 5250 collection book48
On the other handbook75 the quack dreading the forwardness and plausibility of our hero which might one time or other render him independent put a stopbook17 to those supplies on pretence of finding them inconvenient but out of his friendship and goodwill to Fathom undertook to procure for him such letters of recommendation as would infallibly make his fortune in the West Indies and even to set him out in a genteel manner for the voyage. At last his clothes became rusty and when he walked about the streets his head turned round in a surprising manner by an involuntary motion in his neck which he had contracted by a habit of reconnoitring the ground that he might avoid all dangerous or disagreeable encounters.... read all
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