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Rh Night being diturbed in a Dream, with what was ever in his Thoughts, and calling out upon his dear Children; she awoke him, and inisted upon knowing the Cause of his Inquietude. Nothing, my Dear, nothing, ays he, The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, bleed be the Name of the Lord. This was sufficient to alarm the poor Woman; he lay till his Spirits were compoed, and as she thought asleep, then stealing out of Bed, got the Keys and opened his Bureau, where she found the fatal Account. In the Height of her Ditractions, she flew to her Daughter's Room, and waking her with her Shrieks, put the Letters into her Hands. The young Lady, unable to upport this Load of Miery, fell into a Fit, from which it was thought he never could have been recovered. Rh