Amelia -- Volume 1

entures which befel Mr

h any reasonable hope, apply for his delivery. Grief for some time banished the thoughts of food from his mind; but in the morning nature began to grow uneasy for want of her usual nourishment: for he had not eat a morsel during the last forty hours. A pe

as it was; and not one of his friends, as he was apprized, knew of his confinement. As there was no direction to the packet, nor a word of writing contained in it, he began to suspect that it was delivered to the wrong person; and being one of the most untainted honesty, he found out

r. Booth had received a packet without any direction, to which, if any person had any claim, and would discover the contents, he was ready to deliver it to such claimant. No such claimant being fo

elf with snuff, which he had long, to his great sorrow, been without. On this occasion he presently missed that

ilt, that it may, perhaps, be improper to say he barely suspected it. Though Mr. Booth was, as we have hinted, a man of a very sweet disposition, yet was

kes a worse compliment to himself than to the stranger. You know yourself, friend; you know not me. It is true, indeed, you heard me accused of being a cheat and a gamester; but who is my accuser? Look at my apparel, friend; do thieves and gamesters wear such cloaths as these? play is my folly, not my vice; it is my impulse, and I have been a martyr to it. Wou

o mention; but that he had a capricious value for it, for the sake of the person who gave it him; "for, thoug

ut to signify your intention in the prison, and I am well convinced yo

ween the days of sin and the days of grace. I have been a sinner myself." "I believe thee," cries Robinson, with a sneer. "I care not," answered the other, "what an atheist believes. I suppose you would insinuate that I stole the snuff-box; but I value not your malice; the Lord knows my innocence." He then walked off with the reward; and Booth, turning to Robinson, very earnestly asked pardon for his groundless suspicion; which the other, without any hesitation, accorded him, saying, "You never accused me, sir; you suspected some gambler, with whose character I have no concern. I should be angry with a friend or acquaintance who should give a hasty credit

together. In the afternoon Booth indulged his friend with a game at cards; at first for halfpence and afterwards

unately (I might almost say unfortunately) to have four by honours in his hand almost every time he dealt for a whole evening, shunned universally by the whole company the next day. And certain it is, tha

eliberation, therefore, he resolved to ask Robinson to lend him a shilling or two of that money which was lately

e played one of her jade tricks with him: "for since my winning of you," said he, "I have been stript not only

, of the other, when the same person who had the day before delivered him the guinea from the unknown hand, ag

o a room in the prison, where he was presently convinced that M