Alfred de Rosann — page 130: what you’re looking at

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“<> é 4 © os , - eRe * : a ALFRED DE ROSANN. | 121i fered a relapse; and at two o’clock on the following morning he expired in the arms of the individual whom he had only a year ago ruined and reduced to the lowest pitch of degradation. When La Motte’s will was opened, De Rosann found himself the sudden heir to upwards of forty thousand pounds. He moreover inherited the pos- session of the furniture, valuables, carriages, horses, &c. In addition to these bequests, the sum of twelve _.thousand pounds was left to liquidate the amounts due to those discounters who had given cash upon the forged bills for which De Rosann suffered, in case their claims had not been already satisfied: and if they had received a portion, or the whole, of the mo- ney that was owing to them, from the product of the establishment when it became bankrupt, and was sold to other merchants, then the remainder, or entire sum of twelve thousand pounds, was to devolve to De Rosann as La Motte’s heir. Fortunately for our hero, the sale of his ruined house had been entrusted to honest men; and subsequent inquiry proved that the creditors had been paid various dividends to the gross amount of seventy-five per cent. Nine thousand pounds of the twelve, thus equitably set apart by the repentant La Motte, were added to the other lega- cies; and no one congratulated De Rosann more sin- eerely on his unexpected good fortune than the worthy banker, and his daughter Selina. VOL. I1.—11 COPMICLOO© S (E@)