224 Life of Count Rvmford, 



following passages, though the admission of tnem seems 

 to be at the expense of the father. 



" Peace, liberty, independence, are proclaimed throughout 

 the United States of America, enlivening the spirits and glad- 

 dening to all hearts. Alas ! those forsaking their country, de- 

 serting its divine cause, are now excluded this joy and blessing." 



" It is true, we read thus in the papers : 4 His Majesty, 

 George III., King of Great Britain, has conferred on Colonel 

 Benjamin Thompson the order of Knighthood, for services 

 rendered his country.' ' 



" Vain honors ! Is that a sufficient recompense for a separa- 

 tion from friends, from all that is dear on earth ? Ask these 

 favored ones who received like honors, if they can ever after 

 look into their hearts and pronounce themselves perfectly 

 happy ! " 



Sarah represents herself as living under the most 

 happy circumstances of a country life till the death of 

 her fond mother committed her to the care of strangers, 

 and a severe sickness prostrated her. Her memory was 

 at fault when she represents her age at fourteen at her 

 mother's death; and the winter ride on horseback, which 

 took her out of her native State to dwell with stran- 

 gers, was doubtless, for a time at least, to the friendly 

 home of the Baldwins in Woburn. She describes her 

 voyage across the ocean with skill and feeling. She 

 not only had the incidents of " dreadful winds followed 

 by calms," but the disturbance of a love-passage, in 

 which, however, by her own account, she did not par- 

 ticipate. She " was enticed into the gambling game of 

 loo"; was exposed to the addresses of a young cap- 

 tain, " who, as the word goes, fell in love with me, or, 

 probably, at sea, having few adventures, took a fancy 

 for a flirtation, fortunately, in no way or shape re- 

 turned." 



