Chapter 25: He Bears His Fate Like a Philosopher; And Contracts Acquaintance with a Very…

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​‌​​‌​​​​‌​​‌​‌​‌​​‌​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​⁠This was a proper subject for our hero to moralise upon; and accordingly it did not pass without his remarks; he found himself fairly foiled at his own weapons, reduced to indigence in a foreign land, and, what he chiefly regretted, robbed of all those gay expectations he had indulged from his own supposed excellence in the wiles of fraud; for, upon a little recollection, he plainly perceived he h