The Mysterious Hand, Or, Subterranean Horrours! : a Romance 2
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Petersburgh. Theodore told him in- genuously all his story, concealing only such parts of it, as, under Mr. Bolton's promise of secrecy to the Count D'Egfryd, were not to be disclosed, '' Well, well/' said Jenkins, '* never mind till we return to England, and if I don't find out that mur- dering rascal that hove you overboard, say THE MYSTrRIOUS HAND. 95 say Vm no seaman^ that's all. I'll see him tucked up on a lofty gallows yet, or I'll be d d else." The cliaracier of the Captain was new to Th...eodore — it amused and pleased him, while his, in return, gained the rcr:pec t and regard of the honest tar. Each liked the other, and before thev arrived in Russia, a friendship Tvas formed between them which continued during their lives. Unknown to either of them was that artificial and unworthy prin- ciple, which forbids a man of the world to seek or to retain a friend. The-restraint, that such a connexion is said to impose, is irk- some; the confidence it demands, is dange- rous ; the obligations it confers, are painful — only to the licentious, the dissolute, and the depraved.
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