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was intended to excite. You could fee, in fuccef- 

 fion, depiéled upon it, anxiety, furprize, melan- 

 choly, forrow J at laft, as the intereft increafed 

 from fcene to fcene, the tears began to trickle co- 

 pioufly down her little cheeks ; accompanied with 

 fliivering, fighing, fobbing : till it became necef- 

 fary at length to carry lier out of the box, for fear 

 of her being ftifled. My companion informed me, 

 that as often as this young princefs attended the 

 reprefentation of a pathetic piece, (he was obliged 

 to retire, before it came to the crifis. 



I have witneffed inftancesoffenlibility ftill more 

 affefting, in the children of the common people, 

 becaufe they were not produced by any theatrical 

 effeifl. As I was taking my walk, fome years ago, 

 through the Pré St. Gervais, about the fetting-in 

 of winter, I obferved a poor woman, lying along 

 the ground, employed in weeding a bed of forrel ; 

 clofe by her was a little girl, of fix years old at 

 mod, ftanding, motionlefs, and quite impurpled 

 with the cold, I addrefled myfelf to the woman, 

 who betrayed evident fymptoms of indifpofition, 

 and enquired into the nature of her malady. " Sir," 

 faid fhe to me, " for three months paft, I have fuf- 

 " fered very feverely from the rheumatifm ; but 

 " my difeafe gives me much lefs pain than that 

 " poor child : fhe will not quit me a fingle mo- 

 *' ment. If I fay to her, fee, you are quite be- 



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