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When the hour of public executions had arrived (they were more / numerous than usual) his young nephews respectfully assembled at the / feet of the aged millionaire and received the further account of his / fortunes.
"You might imagine, my children," he began "that having this small / capital so happily furnished me by Providence in the short space of a / single day, I would again venture upon a commercial undertaking. That / would have been indeed my natural course; but you must remember that / I could not, without great danger, enter the city I had just left, / lest my able transactions should lead me into contact with those at / whose expense they had been conducted. Further, I was in a strange / country with no knowledge of my way and with nothing to guide me / save the happy circumstance that I was still within the boundaries / of our holy religion. Most of those I should meet would thus be True / Believers, whose frailties I could better understand than those of / the Kafir, and of whom therefore I could (under the all-powerful / guidance of Heaven) more easily take advantage.