in conclusion it may be said that when the worthy jonathan rugg was married to martha dobbs, upon the following june, some mysterious friend presented to the bride a rope of pearls of such considerable value that when they were realized into money our hero was enabled to enter into partnership with his former patron the worthy jeremiah doolittle, and that, having made such a beginning, he by-and-by arose to become, in his day, one of the leading merchants of his native town of philadelphia.

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