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 how bleſſed am I to get an opportunity to tell you how much I love yot. You are the only jewel in the world. I prize, and could I but poſſeſs you, I ſhould think in tell the happiest of all mankind,

At this turning her eves, ſhe ſaid, that ſince he had preſerved her life ſhe could no: do leſs than recompenſe him in ſome manner; for though divers courted her, the was engaged to none.

On this encouragement he preſſed her further, and vowed eternal love, and ſhe By her glances gave conſent, but told him as it was the firſt time of his addres- ſes, he muſt grant her room to coſult her parents, and if he could gain thier conſent, he might be aſſured of hers.

This ſo overjoyed Beateman, as he immediately would have gone to her pr- rents, and aſked that jewel from then whoſe precious life they could not but conclude he next to heaven had preſerv- ed and continued to them. But the op- poſed ſingle would prepare the way herſelf. So riſing from their ſeats they went into the houſe, here a grand din-