^ this TowHi where you loft a trifling Sum
f «t Cards to a Fcltew prifoner?*

This Hint fufficiently awakened J^^^^'s

Memory, and he now recollcfted the

. Features of Ws old Friend Robinfin. He

anfwered him a little (urlily, ^ I know you

^ now very well % but I did not imagine

* you would ever have reminded me of

* chat Tranfection.'

* Alas, Sir!' anfwered Roiinfon^ • what-

* ever happaied then was very trifling,
f compared to the Injuries I have done you \

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* but if my Life be fpared long enough,

* I will now undo it all ; and as I have

* been one of your worft Enemies, I will

* now be one of your beft Friends.*

He was juft entering upon his Story,
when a Noife was heard below, which
might be almoft compared to what hath
been heard in Hallaftd^ when the Dykes
have given Way, and the Ocear^ in an
Inundation breaks in upon the Land. It
feemed indeed as if the whole World was
burfting into the Houfe at once.
Boofb was a Man of great Firmnefs of
Mind, and he had need of it all at this
Inftant. As for poor Robinfon^ the ufual
Concomitants of Guilt attended him, and
he began to tremble in a violent Man-
ner.
