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80 A TOUR THROUGH
This will serve to shew their consequence
with the civil power; the other story will
give you a strong idea of their barbarous
ferocity, and the horrid mixture of stub-
born vice and virtue (if I may call it by
that name) that seems to direct their ac-
tions. I should have mentioned, that they
have a pra&ice of borrowing money from
the country people, who never dare refuse
them; and if they promise to pay it, they
have ever been found punctual and exact,
both as to the time and the sum ; and would
much rather rob and murder an innocent
person, than fail of payment at the day
appointed: And this they have often been
obliged to do, only in order (as they say)
to fulfil their engagements, and to save
their honour.
It happened within this fortnight, that
the brother of one of these heroic ban-
ditti having occasion for money, and not
knowing how to procure it, determined to
make
 
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