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feelings were differently depidled, and fo 

 great was the motley variety of the throng, 

 that had the occafion been lefs painful, the 

 whole fcene might have appeared as a ludi- 

 crous fpedacle. But all the circumftances 

 conneding with It, were fo ferions and afflldt- 

 iog, that every feeling of levity, which might 

 have arifen from the various incidents of the 

 moment, was abforbed in the general emotion 

 of compaffiori for the fufferers. 



Both the fympathy and aftonilhment of 

 the town were excited, in a peculiar manner, 

 towards an unfortunate old lady, nearly 

 eighty years of age, who had heard the 

 alarm in the night-time, and, in order to 

 fave her life, had hurried away on foot, from 

 her place of refidence, and had been com- 

 pelled to walk many miles to reach Ge- 

 neva ; where fhe appeared, amidft the terri- 

 fied crowd, before the hour of opening the 

 city gates. 



Very different was the fenfation created 

 by the misfortune, or rather^y the conduit, 

 under misfortune, of a frivolous marquis~a 



