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The odds being thus removed, fortune proceeded in her usual channel;
and though the Frenchman, deprived of his ally, endeavoured to
practise divers strokes of finesse, the rest of the company observed
him with such vigilance and caution, as baffled all his attempts,
and in a very little time he was compelled to part with his winning:
but, having engaged in the match with an intention of taking all
advantages, whether fair or unfair, that his superior skill should
give him over the Englishman, the money was not refunded without a
thousand disputes, in the course of which he essayed to intimidate
his antagonist with high words, which were retorted by our hero
with such interest as convinced him that he had mistaken his man,
and persuaded him to make his retreat in quiet. Indeed, it was
not without cause that they repined at the bad success of their
enterprise; because, in all likelihood, they had nothing to depend
upon for the present but their own industry, and knew not how to
defray their expenses on the road, except by some acquisition of
this kind.


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