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entrance into her pure and innocent heart; and Divine
Providence wished to recall her from her exile before the
tempest should arrive.

Afflicted with a disease that appeared a slight, but was
in reality a fatal one, she quickly winged her way from
this world of sorrow, in which suffering and privation had
been her whole inheritance.

During the time of her sickness, Philip never quitted the
bedside of his beloved sister: every attention, every care,
in his power to bestow, was lavished upon her; but all in
vain: she died, and left him inconsolable at the loss.

His ardent mind fully comprehended the magnitude of
this afflicting dispensation : he was sencible that the impe-
tuosity of his character would no longer have that resource
which so long had served as its grand corrective ; and he
had not energy enough to form one of those generous re-
solutions which religion alone inspires and alone enables
us to accomplish. Sad and silent, he walked alone with
his faithful Valiant, who seemed to share the grief of his
master ; nor did he remember, that if he on earth had lost
a beloved sister, heaven had gained a pure inhabitant.