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"And you were not at all in a situation to grant it to hiht, perhaps, have been not a little

astonished, this good husband, that you watched by night as well as by

day the teuish and terror she conjured me to fly, to save her

froer of her husband She led me

to a secret stairway, and I, like ato descend, when my foot slipped and I fell down the stairs

with a loud clattering noise I felt the blood oozing fro frohtfully--but I pickedfled

toreached

illness now confined htful

pains; but far htful the voices that day and night whispered to uiltiness! My conscience was fully awakened; it spoke to me in a voice

of thunder, and like a wor of

God a little mercy for the torments that burned my brain! This time God

per: 'Go and

repent, and thy sins shall be forgiven thee! Shake off the sinfulness

that weighs upon thy head, and peace will return to thy bosom' I heard

this voice of God, and ith repentant sorrow I vowed to obey and

reconcileits

object! It was a great sacrifice, but God demanded it, and I obeyed!"

"That is, this sickness had restored you from intoxication to sobriety;

you were tired of your mistress!"

"I had, perhaps, never loved her more warmly, more intensely, than in

those dreadful hours when I was struggling with th to renounce her and separate myself from