In a few days, our adventurer recovered his vigour, complexion, and
vivacity; he mingled again in the diversions and parties of the
place; and he received, in a little time, the money he had lent upon
bottomry, which, together with the interest, amounted to upwards of
eleven hundred pounds. The possession of this sum, while it buoyed
up his spirits, involved him in perplexity. Sometimes he thought
it was incumbent on him, as a man of honour, to employ the greatest
part of it in diminishing the debt for which he suffered; on the
other hand, he considered that obligation effaced, by the treacherous
behaviour of his creditor, who had injured him to ten times the
value of the sum; and, in these sentiments, entertained thoughts
of attempting his escape from prison, with a view of conveying
himself, with the shipwreck of his fortune, to another country, in
which he might use it to better advantage.
Both suggestions were attended with such doubts and difficulties,
that he hesitated between them, and for the present laid out a
thousand pounds in stock, the interest of which, together with the
fruits of his own industry, he hoped, would support him above want
in his confinement, until something should occur that would point
out the expediency of some other determination.
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