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for mitigating my sufferings, I know you have already ordered: have you also given similar directions in behalf of my miserable companion?

I have, Madam.

Thanks for your mercy! My passage to a better state will be short: and of God's mercy there I have no misgivings; for of the crime laid to my charge I am as innocent as the child newly born; as you yourself, worthy Sir, or this good man on whose arm I now lean.

If this be so, Lady, woe to the witnesses, the judges, and the jury by whom you are condemned!

Say not so. I am condemned by what honest, though erring men, believed to be the truth. What God alone knows to be the truth, is not for man's direction.—(To .) Weep not for me, my kind friend. You had good cause to believe that you had seen me in company with a creature not of this world, and you were compelled to declare it.

I wish I had died, ere that evidence had been given!