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(17) unfiniſhed, but ſave us from falling again into ſuch miſery, by means agreeable to its own wiſdom and goodneſs, though impoſſible for us in our preſent ſituation to foreſee."

It was ſome time before Benevolus, who had liſtened to the officer’s ſtory with ſympathetic attention, was able to ſpeak. Recovering himſelf at length, "fear not;" (ſaid he, in a broken voice) "never was the righteous forſaken; nor—nor—norI have ſome friends, Sir, who may ſerve—In the mean take this (reaching him a bank-note for twenty pounds); I will not be refuſed! buſineſs call me for a few hours; but I will ſee you again in the evening."Saying this, he hurried away to hide his emotions, without waiting for a reply, which indeed their gratitude left them not the power to make. He immediately applied to a nobleman, who held a diſtinguiſhed ſtation under the government, and who honoured Beneovolus with his particular intimacy; to him he related the melancholy ſtory, which ſo deeply affected his ſympathetic heart, that he inſtantly gave the father a place of conſiderable profit under him, which enabled virtuous ſufferer once more to make his family perfectly happy.