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20 ther's arms they tore that dear child, the only support, the only consolation of her life. The unhappy pair were loaded with heavier chains. Their imprisonment was rendered more cruel and more dreadful still; and to heighten this barbarity, they were informed that such was the treatment they were ever to expect. Four years elapsed in this horrible situation. St Andre however supported by love made his duty to live and suffer for the dear objects that were torn from him. indefatigable pains and perseverance he at last succeeded in some measure in influencing one of his gaolers; who although he could not be prevailed upon to connive at his escape procured him the consolation of pens, ink, and paper. He then drew up a in which he wrote a very circumstantial history of his life. This he concluded by declaring that he demanded no other favor than his liberty, his wife and child; and that he had no pretensions whatever to his father's fortune, nor even to his own legal portion. This memorial was inscribed with the words:—

The man whom St Andre had gain-