Trip 97 of 4900 collection book65
He possessed a most agreeable manner of telling entertainingbook31 stories of which he had a large collection he sung with great melody and taste and played upon the violin with surprising execution. These were terms upon which our hero would not risk his fortune he was too much addicted to pleasure to forego every other enjoyment but that of amassing and did not so much depend upon his dexterity in play as upon his talent of insinuation which by this time had succeeded so far beyond his expectation that he began to indulge the hope of enslaving the heart of some rich heiress whose fortune would at once raise him above all dependence.... read all
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