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veffel, and faluted the fifcal for the laft time. 
I flew to the turret of the houfe, and, with my 
glafs, I faw the veffel faiUng fo rapidly before 
the windj that it quickly funk below the 
horizon. 
When night arrived, I returned to my old 
apartment. It feemed a prifon to me. Left 
to rnyfelf, I was like a culprit whom all the 
world had abandoned, and who was delivered 
over to his remorfe. No lover ever felt more 
acutely the pains of reparation. 
The next morning I was vifited by Set- 
rurier, the new fifcal; Colonel Gordon, com- 
mandant of the place ; Hakker, the fub- 
governor ; Conway, colonel of the Pondicherry 
regiment, whom I have fince had die pieafure 
of feeing at Paris ; and, in fhort, by all the 
friends of my dear Boers, all the perlbns to 
whom he had recommended me, and who join- 
ed in affuring me, that it fhould be their bufi- 
nefs to make me forger, by their care, a lofs 
which was notlefs fenfibly felt . by them than by 
jne. Every one entreated me to take up my re- 
fidence at his houfe ; but among thefe offers I 
ought particularly to notice that of Colonel 
Gordon, which v.^'as made in the name both of 
himfelf 
