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220 THE MAN OF THE WORLD.
fefled to her that plan of fedudtion by
which he had overcome the virtue of An-
nefly, and the honour of his fifter. “ You
were a witnefs,” he concluded, <c of the fall
of that worth and innocence which it was
in the power of my former crimes to de-
flroy; you are now come to behold the
retribution of heaven on the guilty. By
that hand whom it commiffioned to
avenge a parent and a fifter, I am cut off
in the midft of my days.” te I hope not,
fir,” anfwered fhe; “ your life, I truft, will
make a better expiation. In the punifti-
ments of the divinity there is no idea of
vengeance ; and the infliflion of what we
term evil, ferves equally the purpofe of
univerfal benignity, with the difpenfation
of good.” “ I feel,” replied Sir Thomas,
“ the force of that obfervation : the pain of
this wound ; the prefentiment of death
which it inftilsj the horror with which
the