"This worthy man gave me a very liberal education, and when I was thirten years old took me in his 'counting-house, but, alas! he died before he could establish my fortune as he intended to do."
"His son, who carried on the father's business, had never been very partial to me, and forged a pretext to quarrel with me, and to send me away. A rich nobleman, just going to set out for Germany, wanted a servant, who occasionally would act as secretary, and I was glad to accept his offer to take me in his service: He directed his way to K———, where his father was one of the ministers of state."
"My young master appeared to be little inclined to qualify himself for state business, being possessed of a very small stock of ambition, and entirely addicted to the study of the occult sciences, which had engaged his attention so much, that he was unfit for anything
