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 thou, my love?—Use all possible dispatch, if thou still cherishest Elmira. Ah! they will wrest me from these loving arms!"

I paused for several minutes. I knew, that the Cabal had laid no injunction on me, contrary to this scheme. I promised to get every thing ready for our flight, soothed her alarmed mind with the tenderest expressions, and conducted her to another apartment to take some rest; I fastened the windows and doors, and threw myself with extreme lassitude on my bed. CHAP. VII.

far my history has been full of misfortunes; but this period opens a field of fresh scenes of horror, which even eclipsed all my hopes and wishes.

I had not been many minutes on the bed, before my half-closed eyes were dazzled by an uncommon brightness, which diffused itself all over the room. I took it for the rising sun, and shut my eye-lids against it.