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 her danger from the moment she lay in; and she knew, if acquainted with it, you would have insisted on seeing her. She charged me, therefore, not to acquaint you with her fate till her interment had taken place. And she charged me also to tell you, that if the love you professed for her was sincere, you would endeavour to combat your affliction, in order to support her father, and supply to her infant the loss she would sustain by her death.'

"Does my child then live?" said I.

'Yes (replied the monk); Providence is kind, and still reserves some blessings for you; forfeit them not by murmuring at its decrees. Look at that miserable old man (continued he, pointing to the Earl), and learn from him a lesson of submission to the will of the Almighty. Think you the anguish which wrings the heart of a husband can exceed that which rends the bosom of a parent? no—believe me it cannot: and yet, notwithstanding his deprivation, no loud complaint, no impious murmur, breaks from