Paul and Virginia . Mary and Domingo, from thiselevated spoi, perceive their mistresses on the road of theShaddock Grove, than they flew to the foot of the moun-tain in order to help them to ascend. They discernedin the looks of their domestics the joy which their returnexcited. They found in their retreat neatness, independ-ence, all the blessings which are the recompense of toil,,and they received the zealous services which spring fromaffection. United by the tie of similar wants and thesympathy of similar misfortunes, they gave each otherthe tender names of companion, friend, sister. They h
Paul and Virginia . Mary and Domingo, from thiselevated spoi, perceive their mistresses on the road of theShaddock Grove, than they flew to the foot of the moun-tain in order to help them to ascend. They discernedin the looks of their domestics the joy which their returnexcited. They found in their retreat neatness, independ-ence, all the blessings which are the recompense of toil,,and they received the zealous services which spring fromaffection. United by the tie of similar wants and thesympathy of similar misfortunes, they gave each otherthe tender names of companion, friend, sister. They hadbut one will, one interest, one table. All their possessionswere in common. And if sometimes a passion morelardent than friendship awakened in their hearts the pangof unavailing anguish, a pure religion, united with chastemanners, drew their affections toward another life, as thetrembling flame rises toward heaven when it no longerfinds any aliment on earth. */ The duties of maternity became a source of additional. •• f- k ^^^^^Slf^&W WiiM THE CHILDRENS BATH. PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 57 happiness to these affectionate mothers, whose mutualfriendship gained new strength at the sight of their chil-dren, equally the offspring of an ill-fated delighted in washing their infants together in thesame bath, in putting them to rest in the same cradle,and in changing the maternal bosom at which theyreceived nourishment. My friend, cried Madame de la Tour, we shalleach of us have two children, and each of our childrenwill have two mothers. As two buds which remain on different trees of thesame kind, after the tempest has broken all their branchesproduce more delicious fruit if each, separated from thematernal stem, be grafted on the neighboring tree, sothese two infants, deprived of all their other relations,when thus exchanged for nourishment by those who hadgiven them birth, imbibed feelings of affection still moretender than those of son and daughter, brother and sister.
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