Excerpt from The Geranium Leaf: An Original Tale
But, notwithstanding these and other qualities which he possessed, of a nature to invite social fellowship, a community of fate or fortune, rather than a similitude of character or profession, drew us into rela tions of greater communicativeness, than, considering my preconceived notions of the American people, would have otherwise probably been formed; both of us being bachelors, both being severely afflicted with the liver complaint, which he had contracted in the West, and I, in the East, Indies, in which countries we had severally made our fortunes at the hazard of our lives, and at the expense of our health, and,' prob ably, alike for the benefit of some distant relative.
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