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Then, after some remarks, putting it into his pocket, he said, `It strikes me, young man, that you possessed yourself of this note by some indirect method; and in honesty I cannot return it without my brother's knowledge and approbation. The young man's pistol was immediately at his uncle's breast. `My life, said Mr Fletcher, with perfect calmness, `is secure in the protection of an Almighty Power, nor will he suffer it to be the forfeit of my integrity and your rashness. This firmness staggered his nephew, who exclaimed, `Why, Uncle de Gons, though an old soldier, was more afraid of death than you are. `Afraid of death! cried Mr Fletcher. `Do you think I have been twenty-five years the minister of the Lord of life, to be afraid of death now?
Two Soldaten wis gons stant at ze door, ant into ze room steps ze man in ze grey Uberrock, who had sat with us in ze coffeehouse. He were Spion! 'Come wis me, says ze Spion, 'Very goot! say I. I dresset myself in boots, trousers, ant coat, ant go srough ze room.
One day this nephew waited on his uncle, General de Gons, and, presenting a loaded pistol, threatened to shoot him unless he would immediately advance him five hundred crowns. The general, though a brave man, well knew what a desperado he had to deal with, and gave a draft for the money, at the same time expostulating with him freely on his conduct.
There is some difference among authors respecting the time of this discovery, as some affirm that it did not take place till the year 1405. August. de Civit. Dic. I. 15. c. 20. The Cape of Good Hope, and the island of Madagascar E. Birmahs Arracan Pompon. Mela, I. 3. Plin. I. 2. c. 67. Joseph: Ant. Jud. I. 1. c. 5. Justin, I. 1. Berosus. Diod. Sic. I. 2. c. 5. Berosus. Gons. Fern. I. 2. c. 3.
The young madman rode off triumphantly with his ill-gotten cheque. In the evening, passing the door of Mr Fletcher, he determined to call on him, and began by telling him how liberal General de Gons had been to him, and, as a proof, exhibited the draft. Mr Fletcher took it from his nephew, and looked at it with astonishment.
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