18/29 He was a kind man, but not exactly fitted to fill my grandfather's shoes. I afterwards learned that he died of fever as he was being carried across the sea. I was in the town on my father's account, and he was there on his son's, who, having committed a small larceny, was in trouble. Young Fulcher, however, unlike my father, got off, though he did not give the son of a lord a hundred guineas to speak for him, and ten more to pledge his sacred honour for his honesty, but gave Counsellor P. |