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Paul. 

 ** Why, you yourfelf advifed me to go to 

 ** India."' 



The Old Man. 

 '* When I gave you that advice, Firginia was 

 ** here. But, at prefent, you are the only fupport 

 " of your mothers." 



Paul. 

 " Firginia will fend them the means of fubfifl- 

 *' cnce, from the bounty of her rich relation." 



The Old Man. 

 '* Rich people affift thofe only who pay homage 

 " to them in the World. They have relations 

 *' much more to be pitied than Madame de la 

 ** Tour, and who, for want of fupport from them, 

 *' facrifice their liberty for the fake of bread, and 

 " pafs their lives (hut up in a convent." 



Paul. 

 ** What a dreadful country Europe is ! Oh ! 

 ** Virginia muft return hither. What occafion has 

 " fhe for a rich relation ? How happy (lie once 

 " was, under thefe lowly roofs, how beautiful, and 

 " how charming, when her head was adorned with 

 *' a red handkerchief, or a wreath of flowers. Oh, 

 " Firginia, return, leave thy palaces and thy great- 



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