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 lord's carriages to travel in, I could suffer nothing from the journey.

I was extremely anxious before leaving London to see Sally, who had been represented to me as suffering under all the horrors of remorse, on account of the misfortunes she had occasioned; but it was not till after many messages, that I could prevail on her to come to me. She, however, came at length; and began, as soon as she saw me, to profess her sorrow for what I had suffered, and to beg my forgiveness. She wept bitterly; and hoping that her heart was touched by penitence, I endeavoured to comfort her, by expatiating on the mercies of God, and on the hopes that were held forth in the Gospel to those who truly repented of their sins.

It was a language she did not understand, for she had been brought up in deplorable ignorance; and told me she had never heard any body speak of such things, but a neighbour, who was a Methodist, and that she thought it had been all