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 tentment, and filled his soul with inward bliss. Ten years of congenial happiness were now sunk down into the endless gulph of time, when his aged father died, closing a well-spent life in his seventy-second year: The guardian angel of virtue carried his unspotted soul to the cheerful mansion of everlasting peace; the gentle simile of a good conscience sat still on his wan lips, when his sainted spirit arrived in heaven, hailed by millions of holy angels.

Hellfried now enjoyed twelve years longer the bliss of soothing the sorrows of his mother, and of supporting her under the heavy load of ever increasing infirmities, before she went over to the sacred abode of peace, to be re-united to the dear companion of all her earthly joys and cares. He dropped a tear of filial affection on her tomb, where he rested by her departed husband's side, and directed now all his care and tenderness towards the promoting of his only sister's happiness. The apprehension of draw-