hotter and hotter, at close quarters, she presently brought him to the pass of paying down the dear debt to nature, which she had no sooner collected in, but, like a duellist who has laid his antagonist at his feet, when he has himself received a mortal wound, Emily had scarce time to plume herself upon her victory, but shot with the same discharge, she, in a loud expiring sigh, in the closure of her eyes, the stretch-out of her limbs, and a remission of her whole frame, gave manifest signs that all was as it should be, and happily well over with her.
For my part, who had not with the calmest patience stood in the water all this time, to view this warm action, I lean'd tenderly on my gallant, and, at the close of it, seem'd to ask him with my eyes, what he thought of it; but he more eager to satisfy me by his actions, than by words, or looks, as we shoal'd the water together towards the shore, shew'd me the staff of love so intensely set up, that had not even, charity beginning at home, in
