Doctor Franklin had promised him his good offices in procuring him a passage home to America.

Quite out of the question now.

The sage had likewise intimated that he might possibly see him some way remunerated for his sufferings in his country's cause.

An idea no longer to be harbored.

Then Israel recalled the mild man of wisdom's words--"At the prospect of pleasure never be elated; but without depression respect the omens of ill." But he found it as difficult now to comply, in all respects, with the last section of the maxim, as before he had with the first.
While standing wrapped in afflictive reflections on the shore, gazing towards the unattainable coast of France, a pleasant-looking cousinly stranger, in seamen's dress, accosted him, and, after some pleasant conversation, very civilly invited him up a lane into a house of rather secret entertainment.