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CHAPTER IV


IN WHICH I EXPERIENCE EXTREMES OF FORTUNE
WHETHER it came from my training and repeated
bankruptcy at the Commercial College, or by direct
inheritance from old Loudon, the Edinburgh mason, there
can be no doubt about the fact that I was thrifty.
Looking myself impartially over, I believe that is my
only manly virtue. During my first two years in Paris
I not only made it a point to keep well inside of my
allowance, but accumulated considerable savings in the
bank. You will say, with my masquerade of living as a
penniless student, it must have been easy to do so: I
should have had no difficulty, however, in doing the
reverse. Indeed, it is wonderful I did not; and early
in the third year, or soon after I had known Pinkerton,
a singular incident proved it to have been equally
wise. Quarter-day came, and brought no allowance. A
letter of remonstrance was despatched, and, for the
first time in my experience, remained unanswered.


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