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Be this as it will, her admonitions, though they were powerful
enough to convince, would have been insufficient to overcome the
languor and vis inertiae of her brother, had she not reinforced
her arguments, by calling in question the credit of two or three
merchants, with whom he was embarked in trade.
Alarmed at these hints of intelligence, be exerted himself effectually;
he withdrew his money from trade, and laying it out in Bank-stock,
and India-bonds, removed to a house in the country, which his father
had built near the sea-side, for the convenience of carrying on a
certain branch of traffic in which he had been deeply concerned.
Here then Mr. Pickle fixed his habitation for life, in the
six-and-thirtieth year of his age; and though the pangs he felt at
parting with his intimate companions, and quitting all his former
connections, were not quite so keen as to produce any dangerous
disorder in his constitution, he did not fail to be extremely
disconcerted at his first entrance into a scene of life to which
he was totally a stranger.


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