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First promise to King Corny, to settle in the Black Islands; a gratuitous promise, signifying nothing read Burlamaqui: second promise to Mademoiselle, to go and live with her at Paris; with her on the face of it absurd! a promise extorted too under fear of my life, of immediate peril of being talked to death see Vatel on extorted promises void: third promise to my angel, Dora, to live wherever she pleases; but that's a lover's promise, made to be broken see Love's Calendar, or, if you prefer the bookmen's authority, I don't doubt that, under the head of promises made when a man is not in his right senses, some of those learned fellows in wigs would bring me off sain et sauf: but now for my fourth promise I am a man of honour when I make a promise intending to keep it, no man so scrupulous; all promises made to myself come under this head; and I have promised myself to live, and make my wife live, wherever I please, or not to live with her at all.
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