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wretched 5 but I defer ve to be fo. I liave' broken 'every law 

 of hofpitality, and every obligation of gratitude. / I have 

 dared to wi(h for happinefs, and to fpeak M'hat I wifhed, 

 though it wounded tlie heart of my deareft benefadrefs— 

 'but I will make a fevere expiation. ' I'his moment I leave 

 you : Louifa •, I go to be Wretched, but you may be happy, 

 'happy in your duty to a father ; happy it may be, in the arms 

 of a hufband, whom the poffeilion of fuch a wife may teach 

 refinement and fenfibility. I go to ray native country, to 

 hurry through fcenes of irkfome bufinefs, or taftelefs amufe- 

 ment, that I may, if pofTible, procure a fort of half oblivion 

 of that happinefs which I have left behind •, a liftlefs endur- 

 ance of that life which I once dreamed might be made delight- 

 ful with Louifa I" 



Tears were the only anfvver (he could give. Sir Edward's 

 fervants appeared, with a carriage, ready for his departure. 

 He took from his pocket two pictures ; one he had drawn of 

 Loi^jfa, he faftened round^ his neck, and kifling it with rap- 

 ture, he hid it in his bofom ; the other he held out in a he- 

 fitating manner. This, faid he, if Louifa would accept of 

 it, mayfometimes put her in mind of him who once offended, 

 who can never ceafe to adore her. She may look on it, 

 perhaps, after the original is no more, when this heart fliall 

 have forgot to love, and ceafed to be wretched." 



Louifa was at laft overcome. Her face was firft pale as 

 death •, then fuddenly it was crofled with a crimfon blufli. 

 Oh I Sir "Edward, faid Ihe, what — what would you have 

 me do ? — He eagerly feized her hand, and led her, reluaant, 

 to the carriage. They entered it •, and, driving off with fu- 

 rious fpeed, were foon out of fight of thofe hills which paf- 

 tured the Hocks of the unfortunate Venoni. 

 To bs continued. 



A7iecdote of Zink. 

 "When Zink was In the greatell praftice, he was in a very 

 bad ftate of health ; and being wdi refpeSed by a number 

 of the moft celebrated phylkians, had their alTiftance and 

 advice. All of them pronounced that he was in a decline j ; 

 but about the -method of cure, they were not unanimous. 



