This page needs to be proofread.
DEAN MAHOMET
141
manner, that he became a bankrupt This misfortune preyed ſo much on his mind, that his melancholy could riot well eſcape the obſervation of his miſtreſs, from whom he endeavoured to conceal it as much as poſſible, dreading to be forſaken by her in her poverty. After repeated entreaties on her part, he, at length, made her acquainted with his ſituation: ſhe ſuddenly left him, and to his great aſtoniſhment, ſhortly returned with money and effects, to ſuch an amount as enabled him to conduct his buſineſs with more ſpirit and application than ever.
Here is an inſtance, that even the
human
