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I, accordingly^, faid to Paul: " My good friend, 

 '* yoiir fifter fhall remain with us j to-morrow, we 

 *' will mention the matter to the Governor; mean- 

 *' while, leave your family to repofe,and come and 

 " pafs the night at my habitation. It is late, it is 

 *• midnight : the crofs of the South is diredly over 

 ^* the horizon." 



He allowed me to conduâ: him, in lîlence. Af- 

 ter a very reftlefs night, he rofe at day-break, and 

 returned to his own home. 



But, wherefore fliould I continue the recital 

 of this melancholy ftory to you any longer ? There 

 is only one agreeable fide to contemplate in human 

 life. Like the Globe on which we revolve, our 

 rapid career is only that of a day, and part of that 

 day cannot receive illumination, till the other be 

 involved in darknefs. 



*' Father,'* faid I to him, " I mufl: entreat you 

 '* to finilh the account of what you have begun, 

 " in a manner fo affecting. Images of happinefs 

 " delight the fancy, but the recital of misfortunes 

 *' conveys inflruftion to the mind. I am anxious 

 *' to learn what became of the unfortunate Paul.'" 



The firft objeâ; which ftruck Paul, on his return 

 to the plantation, was the negrefs Mary, who, 



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