These would have taught me that interest and duty were blended in every act of generosity.
I did not come into the world without my scruples and suspicions.

I was more apt to impute kindnesses to sinister and hidden than to obvious and laudable motives.
I paused to reflect upon the possible designs of this person.

What end could be served by this behaviour?
I was no subject of violence or fraud.

I had neither trinket nor coin to stimulate the treachery of others.

What was offered was merely lodging for the night.