130 Introduction to SERIOUS CONVERSATION. 
PART IV. 
Conversation on Religious subjects, till we 
arrive at Winchester. 
LETTER XLIV. 
To Mrs. D***. 
Mad am, 
B EFORE we leave the croud at stockbridge race, let us 
indulge a grateful thought on your happy efcape : how 
near was your poft-chaife from being tumbled over by a coach 
wheel ; an ounce of weight more had done it. I was forry to 
obferve, that fome who ride in coaches have lefs politenefs than 
thofe who drive them : if this were not the cafe, the gentleman 
who faw the accident would have afked your pardon. 
What dangers furround us in the common occurrences of 
life ! our purfuits of the mod: innocent amufements, are not 
exempt from them. May the good providence, which, is watch- 
ful for the fafety of mankind, protect you ! or, if there be fucb, 
may your guardian angel never forfake you ! — I will venture to 
allure you he never will, if you do not forfake yourfelf. 
Night was already approaching, when we left the field ; but 
it was determined to make the heft of our way to winchester. 
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