Trip 4213 of 5250 collection book47

So well had this pupil retained the lessons of her instructor that in the midst of those fraudulentbook71 appropriations which she still continued to make she had found means to support her interest and character with Mademoiselle and even to acquire such influence in the family that no other servant male or female could pretend to live under the same roof without paying incessant homage to this artful waitingwoman and yielding the most abject submission to her will. Nothing else of moment was transacted during that campaign and in the winter our adventurer with the young Count and his friend the Tyrolese were disposed in quarters of cantonment where Ferdinand made himself amends for the chagrin he had undergone by the exercise of those talents in which he excelled.never knew. Divers consultations were held upon this subject before they adhered to the resolution of making their escape from the army afte. Our adventurer would have willingly dispensed with this occasion of signalising himself his talents being much better adapted to another sphere of life nevertheless he affected uncommon alacrity at the prospect of gathering laurels in the field and subscribed to his fortune with a good grace foreseeing that even in a campaign a man of his art and ingenuity might find means to consult his corporal safety without any danger to his reputation.

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