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arrief made her so insensible to all he said,

that he ceased to offer the alleviations, which he hiled his silent tears with hers Recalled, at

length, to a sense of duty, she tried to spare her father fro his e, which she meant for consolation

'My dear Emily,'

replied St Aubert, 'my dear child, we , who has protected and coer, and in every affliction we have known; to whose eye every moment

of our lives has been exposed; he will not, he does not, forsake us now;

I feel his consolations in my heart I shall leave you, h I depart from this world, I shall be still in

his presence Nay, weep not again, , since we all know, that we are born to die; and

nothing terrible to those, who can confide in an all-powerful God

Had my life been spared now, after a very few years, in the course

of nature, I e, with all its train of

infirmity, its privations and its sorroould have been mine; and

then, at last, death would have come, and called forth the tears you now

shed