. Chambers's miscellany of useful and entertaining tracts. sobs—Mother, I die in thine arms; I die on thee, Lizette; blessings on thee. Forgive me \ behappy in thy turn.^ The dying girl extended her hand to her foster-sister. Lizettecovered it with kisses and tears. And now the arms of Madamede Pons clasped only a lifeless corpse. She was forcibly tornfrom the remains of the desire of her eyes thus taken from herat a stroke, and carried to her own apartment; and there, whenin a paroxysm of despair, she exclaimed, I have nothing nowto live for. My child! my child ! Alas! alas !
. Chambers's miscellany of useful and entertaining tracts. sobs—Mother, I die in thine arms; I die on thee, Lizette; blessings on thee. Forgive me \ behappy in thy turn.^ The dying girl extended her hand to her foster-sister. Lizettecovered it with kisses and tears. And now the arms of Madamede Pons clasped only a lifeless corpse. She was forcibly tornfrom the remains of the desire of her eyes thus taken from herat a stroke, and carried to her own apartment; and there, whenin a paroxysm of despair, she exclaimed, I have nothing nowto live for. My child! my child ! Alas! alas ! I have now nochild. Lizette, throwing herself at her mothers feet, pre-sented to her the letter that contained the confession of DameMargaret, and Madame de Pons fell fainting at her side. Need it be added that, on her recovery^ Madame de Pons wasthankful for being spared such a child in the place of her dearClotilda; and that the amiable Lizette enjoyed the reward^sheso richly merited, in having so long and so piously sacrificedPassion to Principle. \. L I F E-A SSUEANCE. A FAMILIAR DIALOGUE. Thomson.—Mr Jones^ do you happen to know anything of life-assurance 1 My wifes father has lately been speaking to me ofit, as a thing calculated to he useful to me. But I must candidlysay, although I have seen all kinds of advertisements on the sub-ject in newspapers and under the covers of magazines, I am stillas ignorant of it as if I were an infant. Jones,—If that is the case, Mr Thomson, I would recommendyour giving the subject some attention immediately; for, as youare a recently-married man, with children beginning to drop inupon you, you are quite the sort of person to whom it should notbe unknown. Thomson.—I am willing enough to know a little of it, Mr Jones,but dont know how that is to be brought about. Somehow,whenever I look into an encyclopaedia for anything, I find theytell me so much, and go so deeply into it, that I remain aboutas ignorant as I was. PerhajDS you can
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