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But to proceed with our history : Wild , having shared the booty in much the same manner as before , i.e. taken three-fourths of it , amounting to eighteen-pence , was now retiring to rest , in no very happy mood , when by accident he met with a young fellow who had formerly been his companion , and indeed intimate friend , at school . It hath been thought that friendship is usually nursed by similitude of manners , but the contrary had been the case between these lads ; for whereas Wild was rapacious and intrepid , the other had always more regard far his skin than his money ; Wild therefore had very generously compassionated this defect in his school - fellow , and had brought him off from many scrapes , into most of which he had first drawn him , by taking the fault and whipping to himself . He had always indeed been well paid on such occasions ; there are a sort of people who , together with the best of the bargain , will be sure to have the obligation too on their side ; so it had happened here : for this poor lad had considered himself in the highest degree obliged to Mr. Wild , and had contracted a very great esteem and friendship for him ; the traces of which an absence of many years had not in the least effaced in his mind . He no sooner knew Wild , therefore , than he accosted him in the most friendly manner , and invited him home with him to breakfast -LRB- it being now near nine in the morning -RRB- , which invitation our hero with no great difficulty consented to . This young man , who was about Wild 's age , had some time before set up in the trade of a jeweller , in the materials or stock for which he had laid out the greatest part of a little fortune , and had married a very agreeable woman for love , by whom he then had two children . As our reader is to be more acquainted with this person , it may not be improper to open somewhat of his character , especially as it will serve as a kind of foil to the noble and great disposition of our hero , and as the one seems sent into this world as a proper object on which the talents of the other were to be displayed with a proper and just success . Mr. Thomas Heartfree then -LRB- for that was his name -RRB- was of an honest and open disposition .