 my Eyes upon that Subject: But with
all my Sense of its being cruel and Inhuman, I cou'd never find in my Heart to
make any Restitution: The Reflection wore off, and I quickly forgot the
Circumstances that attended it.
    Nor was this all, for tho' by this jobb I was become considerably Richer
than before, yet the Resolution I had formerly taken of leaving off this horrid
Trade, when I had gotten a little more did not return; but I must still get
more; and the Avarice had such Success, that I had no more Thoughts of coming to
a timely Alteration of Life; tho' without it I cou'd expect no Safety, no
Tranquility in the Possession of what I had gain'd; a little more, and a little
more, was the Case still.
    At length yielding to the Importunities of my Crime, I cast off all Remorse
and all the Reflections on that Head, turn'd to no more than this, that I might
perhaps come to have one Booty more that might compleat all; but tho' I
certainly had that one Booty, yet every hit look'd towards another, and was so
encouraging to me to go on with the Trade, that I had no Gust to the laying it
down.
    In this Condition, harden'd by Success, and resolving to go on, I fell into
the Snare in which I was appointed to meet with my last Reward for this kind of
Life: But even this was not yet, for I met with several successful Adventures
more in this way.
    My Governess was for awhile really concern'd for this Misfortune of my
Comerade that had been hang'd, for she knew enough of my Governess to have sent
her the same way, and which made her very uneasy; indeed she was in a very great
fright.
    It is true, that when she was gone and had not told what she knew; My
Governess was easy as to that Point, and perhaps glad she was hang'd; for it was
in her power to have obtain'd a Pardon at the Expence of her Friends; But, the
loss of her, and the Sense of her Kindness in not making her Market of what she
knew, mov'd my Governess to Mourn very sincerely for her: I comforted her as
well as I cou'd, and she in return harden'd me to Merit more compleatly the same
Fate.
    However as I had said it made me the more wary, and particularly I was very
shie of Shop-lifting, especially
