You can then put off these actions for two years more, and afterwards make a virtue of surrendering yourself in order to relieve your friends, who of course will begin to be alarmed, and feel so grateful for this supposed mark of propriety, that they will support you for a while in prison, until you get white-washed.

In all this experience, and with such a long list of acquaintances, it will be hard if some will not give you a lift at getting over your difficulties.

Then you start again as a nominal Land-surveyor, Money-scrivener, Horse-dealer, or as a Sleeping-partner in some mercantile concern--such, for instance, as coals, wine, &c.

Your popularity and extensive acquaintance will get your Partner a number of customers, and then if you don't succeed, you have only to become a Bankrupt, secure your certificate, and start free again in some other line.

Then ~377~~ there are other good chances, for a man may marry once or twice.