lOO STUDIES OF NATURE. 



** no Other blcflîng ; we were brought up under 

 *' the fame roof, we repofed in the fame cradle, and 

 " the fame grave (hall contain us. If l"he goes, 

 ** I am refolved to follow. The Governor will 

 " prevent me ! Can he prevent me from throwing 

 ** myfelf into the Sea? I will fwim afcer her; the 

 ** Sea cannot be more fatal to me than the dry 

 ** land. As I cannot live near her, I flialj, at 

 " leaft, have the fatisfadlion of dying before her 

 " eyes, far, far from thee. Barbarous mother! 

 " pitilefs woman ! Oh, may that Ocean, to the 

 *' perils of which thou art going to expofe her, 

 *' never give her back to thy arms ! May thefe 

 *' billows bear my body back to thee, and calling 

 ** it, together with her's, on this rocky Ihore, 

 *' caufe an eternal melancholy to fettle on thee, by 

 " prefenting to thy view, the unhappy fate of thy 

 ** two children." 



At thefe words, I feized him in my arms, for I 

 perceived that defpair had overpowered his reafon : 

 his eyes fparkled j large drops of fweat ran down 

 his inflamed countenance ; his knees trembled, 

 and I felt his heart beat, with redoubled violence, 

 in his burning bofom. 



Virginia, terrified, faid to him : ** Oh, my friend, 

 *' 1 fwear, by the pleafures of our early age, by 

 " thy misfortunes and my own, and by all that 



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