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as these man would seek an helpmate, their children would flourish in turn, and themselves die in a good old age.

"Dear Sensibility, source of gladness unalloyed," concluded he, in a tone of fervency I had never heard before," well art thou avenged on those dull spirits who know thee not; who check thy rising sigh, which as the Zephyr's wing on the ocean, plays round the heart refreshed, hushing the storms of passion, calming the waves of despair! I will not leave, though the cruel world forsake thee: I will court thee in the 'dusky night,' for thou can'st dissipate the mind's murkiness; I will seek thee at the matin-hour, for thou art fair-eyed as the dawn: I will woo thee, to shade me from the glare of intolerance: and when grey evening comes, thou, and only thou, shall bind me in slumber on thy bosom..

"Grant me but sufficiency of frugal fare, I envy not wealth, the companion of care; give me to meet a kindred being, whose soul may float with mine down the tide of time, until time glides into eternity. Give me the labour which makes leisure grateful, enhancing the value of repose: give me the riches of content, of satisfaction from consciousness of meaning all things well, I ask no other wealth. Give

me but this, (and thou canst give), 'tis all for which I ask to live.

"For myself, I am sad and oppressed; my heart beats thick; I think I shall soon return to my country, and to thee.

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FINIS.

Till then,

Adieu."

J. Johnson, Printer, Brook Street, Holborn, London.

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