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 hair, which he had given her on the day of Rosetta’s nuptials.

What a sight for a parent! Margaretta felt it in its full force, and fainted by the side of her departed daughter. It was some minutes ere they could recover her from her swoon; and Lubin with difficulty led her back to the house, while the villagers continued to bear their hapless burden after the afflicted parent. The grief of the Arnold family could only be equaled by that of the aged Percival. He had wrote several letters to India, but received no answer, either from Henry or his relation. The sorrows of Jane greatly affected him: he despised the cruelty and injustice of Henry; and had frequently declared to the good farmer, that, had his son requested his consent to marry the beauteous Jane, he would had given it with unfeigned transport.

On the fourth day after her decease, her funeral took place in the village church-yard. The coffin was born by young maidens in white robes; and on their heads they wore chaplets of cypress. Mr Percival and the weeping relations of Jane closed the mournful procession. There was not a dry eye among the villagers. The deep-tolling knell was accompanied by sighs and heart-felt groans; while the aged parents, as the funeral passed their doors, bid their sons beware of the fatal crime of seducing credulous innocence; and their daughters avoid the fate of the