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The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D. (v. 4)
The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett M D - v. 4 Author:Tobias George Smollett Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: defire, and, alarmed by that fufpicion, liftened attentively to their difcourfe, which, from a flender knowledge in the French tongue, he had the good fortune pa... more »rtly to un- derftand. This important piece of intelligence he communicated to the count at his return, and meafures were immediately taken to defeat the defign, and make an example of the authors, who being permitted to load themfelves with the booty, were apprehended in their retreat, and punifh- ed with death, according to their demerits. CHAPTER V. A brief detail of his education. Nothing could have more feafonably happened, to confirm the good opinion which the colonel entertained of Ferdinand's principles: His intentions towards the boy grew every day more and more warm; and immediately after the peace of Paflarowitz, he retired to his own houfe at Prefburg, and prefented young Fathom to his lady, not only as the fon of a perfon to whom he owed his life, but alfo as a lad who merited his peculiar protection and regard by his own perfonal virtue. The countefs, who was an Hungarian, received him with great kindnefs and affability, and her fon was ravifhed with the profpect of enjoying fuch a companion : In fhort, fortune feemed to have provided for him an afylum, in which he might be fafely trained up, and fuitably prepared for more important fcenes of life than any of his anceftors had ever known. He was not, in all refpects, entertained on the footing of his young mafter; yet he fhared in all his education and amufements, as one whom the old gentleman was fully determined to qualify for the ftation of an officer in the fervice ; and if he did not eat with the count, he was every day regaled with choice bits from his table ; holding, as it were, a middle place between the rank of a relation, and favourit...« less