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 ong below stairs during the conversation which just taken place I wished to warn you of the nger of your state; but Jenny has said all I could sire, and I now solemnly ask you whether you e not much affected by your poor child's faithful nversation? Say whether this sight does not I aloud upon you to hear and fear. Jane's eyes re filled with tears whilst I spoke. My child, nny, said I, how are you to day! Sir, my mind s been very easy and happy since I last saw you. am quite willing to die when the Lord sees fit. She was now quite overcome, and sunk away a kind of fainting fit. Her mother observed at she would now probably remain insensible r some time before she recovered. I improved is interval in a serious address to the woman, nd then prepared to take my departure, perceiving hat Jane was too much exhausted for farther con- ersation at that time. As I was leaving the room, he child said faintly, come again soon, sir, my me is very short.

I returned home by the same retired road which had before chosen.

The very next morning a message was sent that ane thought herself dying, and wished to see me immediately. When I arrived at the house I found no one below; I paused a few minutes and heard the girl's voice very faintly saying, Do you think he will come ? I should be so glad—so very glad to see him before I die. I ascended the stairs— er father, mother, and brother, together with the elderly woman before spoken of, were in the chamber. Jane's countenance bore the marks of speedy dissolution. Yet, although death was manifest in her languid features, there was something more than ever interesting in the whole of