1 He asked me the history of my earlier years.
2 He excites at once my admiration and my pity to an astonishing degree.
3 He then told me that he would commence his narrative the next day when I should be at leisure.
4 He has frequently conversed with me on mine, which I have communicated to him without disguise.
5 He was respected by all who knew him for his integrity and indefatigable attention to public business.
6 He must have been a noble creature in his better days, being even now in wreck so attractive and amiable.
7 He was not, as the other traveller seemed to be, a savage inhabitant of some undiscovered island, but a European.
8 He bitterly deplored the false pride which led his friend to a conduct so little worthy of the affection that united them.
9 He is now much recovered from his illness and is continually on the deck, apparently watching for the sledge that preceded his own.
10 He lost no time in endeavouring to seek him out, with the hope of persuading him to begin the world again through his credit and assistance.
11 He entered attentively into all my arguments in favour of my eventual success and into every minute detail of the measures I had taken to secure it.
12 He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity.
13 He manifested the greatest eagerness to be upon deck to watch for the sledge which had before appeared; but I have persuaded him to remain in the cabin, for he is far too weak to sustain the rawness of the atmosphere.
14 He passed his younger days perpetually occupied by the affairs of his country; a variety of circumstances had prevented his marrying early, nor was it until the decline of life that he became a husband and the father of a family.
15 He is so; but then he is wholly uneducated: he is as silent as a Turk, and a kind of ignorant carelessness attends him, which, while it renders his conduct the more astonishing, detracts from the interest and sympathy which otherwise he would command.
16 He saw his mistress once before the destined ceremony; but she was bathed in tears, and throwing herself at his feet, entreated him to spare her, confessing at the same time that she loved another, but that he was poor, and that her father would never consent to the union.
17 He had already bought a farm with his money, on which he had designed to pass the remainder of his life; but he bestowed the whole on his rival, together with the remains of his prize-money to purchase stock, and then himself solicited the young woman's father to consent to her marriage with her lover.
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