Amelia

tar are not worth recounting to you. After a voyage the remainder of which was tolerably prosperou

d I should most certainly have either perished miserably, or must have owed my preservation to some of the enemy, had not my faithful

ggravated the distemper of my body; insomuch that it would probably have proved fatal, had it not been for the friendship of one Captain James, an officer of our regiment, and an old acquaintance, who is undoubtedly one of the pleasantest companions and one of the best-nature

nd yet his conduct towards me alone demonstrates a degree of goodness which, perhaps, few of the votaries of either virtue or religion can equal." "You need not take much pains," answered Miss Matthews, with a smile, "to convince me of your doctrine.

his system the best passion which the mind can possess, and attempts to derive the effects or energies of that passion from the base impulses of pride or fear. Whereas it is a

thought all he said was true; and I have been often told that he proves religion and virtue to be only mere names. Howeve

madam, in that," answer

. Booth! I know not what I was going to say-What-Where did you leave

Booth; "if I can give

for the world break the thread of your story. Be

during the time of my danger demonstrated a concern for me which I can hardly account for, as my prevailing on his captain to make him a sergeant was the first favour he ever received at my hands, and this did not happen till I was almost perfectly recovered of my broken leg. Poor fellow! I s

rd, I received a violent contusion from the bursting of a bomb. I was felled to the ground, where I lay breathless by th

on than the former; it caused me to spit blood, and was attended with a feve

honour was too much concerned, attempted to raise my hopes of recovery to the utmost of his power; but chiefly he prevailed on me by suggesting that, if the worst which I apprehended should happen, it was much better for Amelia that she should be absent than present in so melancholy an hour. 'I know' cried he, 'the extreme joy which must arise in you from meeting again with Amelia, and t

ews. "Booth, thou art a noble fellow; and I scarce think

id him. This drew more civilities from the lady, and these again more a