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daughter in tears. They kissed me tenderly; but I had lost my son, their caresses no longer affected me, I only received them.

Some days after I was removed from the Temple to the Conciergerie. I received this stroke with apathy. It reached my sister and my daughter only. For my part, I descended into this abyss without trouble, without joy, and without grief. It was long before I recovered the power of shedding tears. Should a woman have any, after exhausting their source for her husband and her son.

VOL. II.

END OF THE THIRD VOL.

THE

MAGDALEN CHURCHYARD,

FROM THE FRENCH OF

J. J. REGNAULT WARIN,

AUTHOR OF

ROMEO AND JULIET, THE Castle of strOZZI, Úc.

TRANSLATED

BY SAMUEL MACKAY, A. M.
EX-PROFESSOR OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE IN
WILLIAMS' COLLEGE.

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"And startles thousands, with a single fall.".....Young.

VOL. IV.

Boston;

PUBLISHED BY HASTINGS, ETHERIDGE AND BLISS, NO. 8, STATE STREET,

AND AT THEIR OFFICE IN CHARLESTOWN,

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THE

MAGDALEN CHURCHYARD.

ELEVENTH NIGHT..

MADAME, said I to the queen, when she had ended her discourse; amid the innumerable adversities, which have assailed you, and which still overwhelm you, it is a great consolation, that you can calmly look back on your conduct. I will grant with your majesty, that you might have tempered your actions, your pursuits, and your speeches, with a more scrupulous reserve, as much for your own interest, as through a deference for the opinion of men, who generally judge

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