 cruelly attempt to recall to life a wretched creature who can never again know peace: then, bursting into a flood of tears, she, in the most pathetic, heart-melting expressions, bewailed her miserable fate.
My love, my dearest Emily, tell me, I conjure you tell me, what has happened thus to distress you? Am I not your friend? Your adoring lover? Can you doubt my zeal and readiness to serve and oblige you? Or even to sacrifice my life was it possible I could thereby restore my angel to peace and happiness? Speak to me; command me; here, on my knees, I swear by all that's sacred to refuse you nothing you can ask! Are you not dearer to me than my own soul?
On my Lord! my Lord! attempt no longer to deceive me, too well do I know what confidence to place in your vows and protestations. Perhaps when death has released me from this treacherous, this wicked world, a moment may come in which you will reflect with anguish on

your conduct to one who once was weak enough to believe you faultless.
Heaven has severely! Ah! how very severely punished my too easy credulity! At present your Lordship may perhaps triumph in your success; you have, indeed, succeeded but too well! You have undone me!—ruined! for ever ruined a poor young creature, who deserved a better fate! But I forgive you! May heaven also be merciful! and forgive you too, and soon take me from this scene of inexpressible misery! Forsaken! Given up by all my friends! Become a wretched outcast! What have I now to hope?
Every thing, my best beloved! Every thing in the power of the man who adores you! whose whole study it shall be from this moment to supply to you the loss of those unkind friends you lament; they were not worthy to possess so inestimable a treasure, they knew not the value of the jewel they thus reject; but your devoted Sommerville knows it well, and will preserve it as the greatest blessing heaven can bestow on him.
Look up then, my best love, turn those dear eyes upon him; trust him, place a

proper confidence in him, and you shall be happy, happy as it is in the power of the most faithful, the most tender of lovers to make you.
Let me instantly quit this house then, my Lord? This, and this only, I ask as a proof of your sincerity.
By heavens you shall, my Emily! Even this cruel request I
