
| Their Kuala LET 
_ tacle! prefented itfelf to the View of all the 

Company, filling me with the deepeft Dif 
trefs and Concern, as I thought myfelf — 
the unhappy Inftrument | of drawing her 
into fo great and imminent Hazard of her 
Life, which now fo manifeftly lay at Stake. 
tis ‘not in my Power to tell the Con- 
fafibn and Diftrefs of Mind I was in, from 
the awful Apprehenfions it raifed ; and her 
Dread and Terror in fuch Circum Rances 
may feafonably be fuppofed to be much more, 
Every Moment fhe was at the Point of retir- 
ing with all the Bees about her. Vain 
Thought! To efcape by Flight. She might 
have left the Place indeed, but could not the 
Company ; and the Remedy would have been 
much worfe than the Difeafe. Had the en- 
raged them, all Refiftance had been in vain, 
and nothing lefS than her Life would have 
atoned for the Offence: And now to have 
had that Life (in fo much Jeopardy) in- 
fured, what would I not have given? 
‘To prevent therefore a Flight, which . 
muft have been attended with fo fatal 
a Confequence, I {pared not *to urge: all 
the Arguments I could think of, and ufe 
the moft affectionate Intreaties, begging 
her with all Earneftnefs in my Power, to 
ftand her Ground, and keep: her prefent 
Pofture; in order to which, I gave) her 
Encouragement to hope (in a little Space) 
for a full Difcharge from her difagreeable 
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