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Excerpt from Theodosius De Zulvin, the Monk of Madrid, Vol. 2 of 4: A Spanish Tale, Delineating Various Traits of the Human Mind
This last interview: he foresaw a train of evils most seriously to be dreaded, while he trembled for the happiness of Don Diego, if it rested on the welfare of his adopted nephew. It was but a week after Orlando's first introduction to the gaming house by Don Esau that this interview took place: he continued the same regular attendance after it: even had not his inclinations prompted him to follow up the amusement, he would most certainly have done it, as a compli ment to his own judgment, and a proof of his contempt to those who differed from him. Although he daily became more expert, and sometimes found himself a considerable gainer at play, yet fortune was generally against him 5 and in the course of a month the whole of his cash only amounted to thirty pistoles. - In returning from the pub lic rooms on the very evening which re duced his finances to this small sum, he was suddenly accosted in passing through a lonely street near the suburbs'of the city by a mannwhomahe hadgnoticed to have folg.
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