PAUL AND VIRGINIA. I07 



lowing", he colleded every thing, which fhe was- 

 accuftomed to keep, for her particular ufe ; the laft 

 nofegay which (he had worn, and a cup made of 

 the cocoa-nut, out of which fhe ufually drank ; 

 and, as if thefe reliques of his friend had been the 

 mod precious treafures in the World, he kifled 

 them, and put them in his bofom. The amber- 

 gris does not flied fo fweet a perfume, as thofe 

 things which have been touched by a beloved ob- 

 jeâ:. But Paul, at length, perceiving that his de- 

 jeftion only augmented that of his mother, and of 

 Madame de la Tour^ and likewife obferving, that 

 the neceflities of the family called for continual 

 labour, he began with Domingo's help, to repair the 

 garden. 



In a fliort time, this young man, before, as in- 

 different as a Creole about what was pafTmg in the 

 World, entreated m.e to teach him to read and to 

 write, that he might be able to keep up a corre- 

 fpondence with Virginia. He, afterwards, feemed 

 eager to be inflrucled in geography, in order to 

 form an idea of the country whither fhe was fleer- 

 ing, and in hiflory, that he might learn, what w^re 

 the manners of the people among whom fhe was 

 going to live. Thus did he attain to perfedlion in 

 agriculture, and in the art of difpofing in order, 

 the mod irregular fpot of ground, merely by the 

 fentiment of love. Doubtlefs, it is to the delights 



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