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Paul. 

 ** Ah ! I (hould covet this glory, only to diffufc 

 *' it*s luftre over Firginiaj and to render her dear 

 *' to all the World. But you, who have fo much 

 ** experience, tell me, whether we fhall ever marry ? 

 " I wifh to be a fcholar, at leaft to know what I 

 *' am to expeél in future.'* 



The Old Man. 

 •' Who would wifli to live, my fon, if he knevr 

 " what was to befal him hereafter ? A fingle fore- 

 " feen calamity occafions a thoufand vain anxieties : 

 ** the certain profpeét of a heavy afflidlion would 

 ** embitter all the days which might precede it. 

 *' Indeed, it is not proper to enquire too deeply, 

 " even into furrounding objeds ; Heaven, which 

 •*-b€fl:ows refleftion upon us, in order that we may 

 *' forefee our neceffities, has alfo given us neceffi- 

 " ties, to fet bounds to our refledion.'* 



Paul. 

 ** You tell me, that, in Europe, dignities and 

 " honours are to be purchafed with money. I will 

 " go and acquire wealth in Bengal, and then dire(fl 

 " my courfe toward Paris, and efpoufe Virginia. I 

 *' will go and embark immediately." 



The Old Man. 

 *' How ! will you leave her mother and your own ?** 



Paul. 



