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sometimes think of onemy evil fame will notthou wilt think, ay, wilt speak good of Violet Murrey, when all besides speak evil. Thou wilt not(Bursts into tears.)

My dear, dear creature! dear as nothing else has ever been to me, thou shalt not die: the very thought of it makes me distracted!

Be not so: it is the manner of it that distresses thee. But has it not been the death of the martyrs, of the holy and the just; of those, the dust of whose feet I had been unworthy to wipe? Think of this, and be assured, that I shall be strengthened to bear it.

Oh, oh, oh! If deliverance should be frustrated!

What art thou talking of? thou art, indeed, distracted. Nay, nay! let not my execution terrify thee so much. I, too, was terrified; but I have learnt from my gaoler, who has been present at such spectacles, that the sentence, though dreadful, is executed mercifully. The flames will not reach me till I have ceased to breathe; and many a natural disease doth end the course of life as mine will be terminated.