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( 19 ) is ſome days I have lived almoſt without ſupport, having conveyed what little mony I could raiſe to your poor father Thou wilt weep to think where he is, yet be aſſured he will be ſoon at liberty. That cruel letter would have broke his heart, but I have concealed it from him. I have no companion at preſent beſides little Fanny, who ſtands watching my looks as I write, and is crying for her filter: the lays ſhe is ſure you are not well, having diſcovered that my preſent trouble is about you. But do not think I would thus repeat my ſorrows, to grieve thee: no, it is to intreat thee not to make them inſupportable, by adding what would be worſe than will. Let us bear chearfully an affliction which we have not brought on ourſelves and remember there is a power who can better deliver us out of it, than by the loſs of thy innocence. Heaven preſerve my dear child.

Thy affectionate Mother.

THE meſſenger, notwithſtanding he promiſed to deliver this letter to Amanda, earned h into his maſter. who he imagined would be glad to have an opertunity of giving it into her hands himſelt. His maſter was in patient to know the ſucceſs of his propoſal, and therefore broke open the letter privately, to ſee the contents. He was not a little moved at ſo true a picture of virtue in diſtreſs: but at the ſame time was infinitely