 shocking sentence pronounced, lay silent for a minute, then turning to me, who was standing speechless, and motionless, before her, with a look of wildness and despair, cried out,
"I'll go with you, I'll die with you, we never shall be parted more."
I threw myself down by her, we embraced and lay folded in each other's arms, till we were summoned, the next morning, to begin our journey.

We travelled with all the expedition that our conductors were pleased to make, and suffered every indignity and insolence of office, all the way, that mean

persons are apt to inflict on those above them, whenever they happen to gain an authority over them.—All this I felt not but as I sympathized with my unhappy mother, for as to myself I welcomed every mortification and distress I met with, and even wished them still more severe.
We were at length relieved from this oppression by arriving at Exeter, where we were carried directly to the sheriff's house, and delivered over into his custody; for my dear mother would not quit me, but said that the same prison, or the same grave, should receive us both—This humane person behaved with the utmost tenderness and politeness toward us, offered us every refreshment and accommodation that his hospitality

could afford, and told me that he would impose no other restraint on me than an earnest request that I would accept of the best apartment in his house, and prevail on my mother to share the same comforts and conveniences with me—He then bowed and retired.
He returned soon after, to introduce a gentleman to us, who he said had some affair of business to communicate to me, and then withdrew again. But how was I overwhelmed with confusion, when the person announced his name to be Captain R—! The confidant of my shame, stood before me—My trial was began, already—I felt as if I was at the bar.
This gentleman behaved with great good-breeding and compassion to me, on

that occasion; he scarcely looked at me, but going up directly to my mother, whom he saw in tears, assured her that she need not suffer the least uneasiness on account of her daughter, as he had already made her innocence appear so fully to the Justice, that she was not to be arraigned, on the trial, and might now consider herself perfectly free from her arrest.—He prevented us, he would not listen to our acknowledgments, but directing his discourse to me, though without turning his eyes towards me, thus proceeded.

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