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 and pressed it to her bosom, lifted her eyes to Heaven, and exclaimed: "Alas! My poor brother!"

—"Your brother! my dear?—" answered I with astonishment.

—"Yes, indeed, my brother, my unfortunate brother, who became the victim of that horrid society, whose baneful schemes we have hitherto but half evaded. Alas! my whole family was left to destruction by those monstrous barbarians!

At this moment I thought it would not be trespassing the laws of prudence and discretion to intreat her to give me an account of the whole business, which she did as nearly as possible in the following words:

—"Till my twelfth year, I had two brothers living; the younger, a hot and fiery youth, devoted himself to the navy, and distinguished himself on every occasion by his daring spirit, but was soon carried off by a cannon-ball in an engagement with a piratical ship of Algiers. Emanuel, my elder brother, destined to be the prop of our name and family, remained after my father's demise,