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225 THE MAN-OF FEELING.
interpofed, and Tent Mr. Mountford to:
our fupport : hs has relieved my family
from the gnawingsof hunger and refcued
me from death, to which a fever, confe-
quent on my wounds, and increafed by.
the want of every neceflary had nearly
reduced me.”
“ Inhuman villain V’ I exclaimed, lift¬
ing up my eyes to heaven. “ Inhuman
indeed ! faidthe lovely woman who flood
at my fide : Alas 1 Sir, what had we done
to offend him ? what had thefe little ones
done, that they fhould perifh in the toils
of his vengeance ?” 1 reached a pen
which flood in an ink-flandifh at the bed-
fide—“ May I afk what is the amount of
the fum for which you are imprifoned ?”—*
“ I was able, he replied, to pay all but
500 crowns,” -1 wrote a draught on
the banker with whom I had a credit
from my father for 2500, and prefenting
it to the flranger’s wife, “ You will re¬
ceive, Madam, on prefenting this note,;
a fum