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 half past ten, when his servant informed him you positively would not come to him. After a moment’s silence, he took my hand in a paroxysm of despair, which terrified me, and exclaimed—‘''Cruel woman! but she shall gain nothing. I will pursue her as much after my death as I have done during my life!''’—I endeavoured to calm him, but he was no more.”

I think, my friend, I need not tell you the effect these last words had upon me. I thought all the powers of heaven and earth had united to torment my wretched life: but, at length, time and mature reason have restored calmness to my mind. “If,” said I, “there is no Superior Being who directs this