For a time, my exertions were fruitless.
"Meanwhile, the possessor of this house thought proper to embark with his family for Europe.

The sum which he demanded for his furniture, though enormous, was precipitately paid by me.

His servants were continued in their former stations, and in the day at which he relinquished the mansion, I entered on possession.
"There was no difficulty in persuading the world that Welbeck was a personage of opulence and rank.

My birth and previous adventures it was proper to conceal.

The facility with which mankind are misled in their estimate of characters, their proneness to multiply inferences and conjectures, will not be readily conceived by one destitute of my experience.