Once free, with my fine person and good family, I will do what ten thousand Irish gentlemen have done before, and will marry a lady of fortune and condition.

And the proof that I was, if not disinterested, at least actuated by a noble ambition, is this.

There was a fat grocer's widow in Berlin with six hundred thalers of rent, and a good business, who gave me to understand that she would purchase my discharge if I would marry her; but I frankly told her that I was not made to be a grocer, and thus absolutely flung away a chance of freedom which she offered me.
And I was grateful to my employers; more grateful than they to me.

The Captain was in debt, and had dealings with the Jews, to whom he gave notes of hand payable on his uncle's death.

The old Herr von Potzdorff, seeing the confidence his nephew had in me, offered to bribe me to know what the young man's affairs really were.