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Peter Simple and The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2

CHAPTER XIV
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I had two rings on my fingers, and a watch in my pocket, when I was sent on board the tender, and I stowed them away very carefully.

I had also a few pounds in my purse.

I was sent round to Plymouth, where I was drafted into a frigate.
After I had been there some time, I turned the watch and rings into money, and bought myself a good kit of clothes; for I could not bear to be dirty.

I was put into the mizen-top, and no one knew that I had been a lord." "You found some difference, I should think, in your situation ?" "Yes, I did, Mr Simple; but I was much happier.

I could not forget the ladies, and the dinners, and the opera, and all the delights of London, beside the respect paid to my title, and I often sighed for them; but the police officer and Bow-street also came to my recollection, and I shuddered at the remembrance.


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