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"When she saw me, she screamed and would have flown; I stopt her, and told her I came faithfully and honourably to h sullied, were not extinguished, for she instantly acknowledged the fatal tale of her undoing!

"Did I recoenuousness? this unexarity? Yes! with my curses!--I loaded her with execrations, I reviled her in language the most opprobrious, I insulted her even for her confession! I invoked all evil upon her from the bottoiveness and compassion, she ith the bitterness of despair,-- and yet I spurned her from me!--Spurned?--let le was the blow!--it was doubled, it was reiterated!--Oh wretch, unyielding and unpitying! where shall hereafter be cle a culprit! so infamously seduced! so humbly penitent!

"In this led by these savage hands, and reviled by this inhuue, I left her, in search of the villain who had destroyed her: but, cowardly as treacherous, he had absconded Repenting ain; the fierceness of rew calmer, the softness of her sorrow melted me upon recollection: I returned, therefore, to soothe her,--but again she was gone! terrified with expectation of insult, she hid herself fro years to no purpose, regardless of th, I thought I saw her--in London, alone, and walking in the streets at ht,--I fearfully followed her,--and followed her into an house of infamy!

"The wretches by who, they heeded me little,--but she saw and knew me at once! She did not speak, nor did I,--but in two moments she fainted and fell

"Yet did I not help her; the people took their own ain able to stand, would have removed her to another apart theth of desperation, I turned to the unhappy sinner, who to chance only seemed to leave what became of her, and cried, From this scene of vice and horror let me yet rescue you! you look still unfit for such society, trust yourself, therefore, to ed her away She trembled, she could scarce totter, but neither consented nor refused, neither shed a tear, nor spoke a word, and her countenance presented a picture of affright, amazement, and horror