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I was feized with fuch terror, that 1 was unable 

 to make the leaft reply to Omfi : I only thanked 

 him, by an inclination of my head, and he imme- 

 diately haftened from me, left he (hould be per- 

 ceived by any of his companions. 



At that moment, I called to mind the reafon 

 which induced the Gauls, who had made me their 

 ilave, to hinder me from removing from their ha- 

 bitation ; they were apprehenfive thm I might fall 

 into the hands of the Druids ; but I had not the 

 power of efcaping my cruel deftiny. My deftruc- 

 tion now appeared fo inevitable in my own eyes, 

 that I did not believe Jupiter himfelf was able to 

 deliver me from the jaws of thofe tygers, who were 

 thirfting for my blood. I recolleded no more, 

 oh, Cephas ! what you have fo frequently told me. 

 That the Gods never abandon innocence. I did 

 not even remember their having faved rne from 

 fhipwreck, Prefent danger totally obhterates paft 

 deliverance from the mind. Sometimes, I imagined 

 that they had preferved me from the waves, only 

 to give me up to a death a thoufand times more 

 painful. 



Neverthelefs, I was addrefling my fupplicafions 

 to Jupiter, and I enjoyed a kind of repofe, in re- 

 lying entirely on that Providence which governs 

 the World, when, all cf a fudden, the doors of 



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