They will suspect a design to pillage, but their searches will terminate in nothing but in the discovery of a pair of clumsy and dusty shoes in the closet.

Now that I was safe I could not help smiling at the picture which my fancy drew of their anxiety and wonder.

These thoughts, however, gave place to more momentous considerations.
I could not imagine to myself a more perfect example of indigence than I now exhibited.

There was no being in the city on whose kindness I had any claim.

Money I had none, and what I then wore comprised my whole stock of movables.