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any scheme whatever ; but merely to place your signature here as voucher for the statements I have made . " " Hand me the paper . " Returning it after calm and deliberate perusal , Heron remarked with a sigh : " This is more than a mere voucher for certain statements ; it entails responsibilityWraybury , —heavy , pecuniary
respon-, sibility . " " Nothing of the kind : but here solicitation ends ! My friend from bojdiood—my associate from childhood—to whom I could have refused no request in the hour of his sorrow , abandons me in my extremity * , and that , too , when the slihtest interference on his part would have averted
g absolute ruin . Be it so ! By and bye I shall learn to estimate assurances of attachment at their true value . " Heron was touched . Looking earnestly ancl anxiously into Wraybury's face , " Promise me , " cried he , " on the word of a man and a Christian—pledge yourself sacredly that no pecuniary liabilities will attach to myselfand I .
, will reconsider my determination . " " I do , solemnly , " said the other , with emphasis . " Then , on the faith of that declaration , I attach my signature . " It was a concession he deplored to the end of his life .
II . " Are you to be always a child?—never proof against solicitation—never able to say ' No ?'" cried his elder uncle , vehemently , when one morning , after a volley of objurgation , he acquainted him that " Wraybury had lied ; that his affairs were hopelessly involved ; that his , Heron's ,
name was mixed up with his transactions ; and that the penalty of the last paper— the voucher which he signed —• would entail on him a debt only of about seven thousand pounds . " " Then I am a ruined man ! " cried Heron , with anguish . " And must leave the country , " added the uncle , emp hatically .
in . Dominica was the scene of the exile ' s retreat . His uncles , as the price of their assisting him , either with outfit or passage money , required that he should relinquish the
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Silence:
any scheme whatever ; but merely to place your signature here as voucher for the statements I have made . " " Hand me the paper . " Returning it after calm and deliberate perusal , Heron remarked with a sigh : " This is more than a mere voucher for certain statements ; it entails responsibilityWraybury , —heavy , pecuniary
respon-, sibility . " " Nothing of the kind : but here solicitation ends ! My friend from bojdiood—my associate from childhood—to whom I could have refused no request in the hour of his sorrow , abandons me in my extremity * , and that , too , when the slihtest interference on his part would have averted
g absolute ruin . Be it so ! By and bye I shall learn to estimate assurances of attachment at their true value . " Heron was touched . Looking earnestly ancl anxiously into Wraybury's face , " Promise me , " cried he , " on the word of a man and a Christian—pledge yourself sacredly that no pecuniary liabilities will attach to myselfand I .
, will reconsider my determination . " " I do , solemnly , " said the other , with emphasis . " Then , on the faith of that declaration , I attach my signature . " It was a concession he deplored to the end of his life .
II . " Are you to be always a child?—never proof against solicitation—never able to say ' No ?'" cried his elder uncle , vehemently , when one morning , after a volley of objurgation , he acquainted him that " Wraybury had lied ; that his affairs were hopelessly involved ; that his , Heron's ,
name was mixed up with his transactions ; and that the penalty of the last paper— the voucher which he signed —• would entail on him a debt only of about seven thousand pounds . " " Then I am a ruined man ! " cried Heron , with anguish . " And must leave the country , " added the uncle , emp hatically .
in . Dominica was the scene of the exile ' s retreat . His uncles , as the price of their assisting him , either with outfit or passage money , required that he should relinquish the