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laid hold on him on either side, and a third on Peachman. Rowland, with a gentle violence, tried to disengage himself from their grasp; but Peachman suffered himself to be led on by the courtezan who had joined him. "Rowland!" said Peachman, "no violence, here! Be polite; the ladies, if you are engaged, will not detain you." "Well then, I am positively engaged," said Rowland, "you have mistaken me; and therefore I am under the necessity of taking my leave." Upon this, with a gentle but determined effort, he disengaged himself, and followed his elder companion with surprise at beholding him continuing his walk some time with his seducer, but, after a time, he left her, and took Rowland with him again into the boxes.

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They stayed the whole of the play, and left the house between twelve and one. As they went home, Peachman rallied Rowland upon his alarms at the siege laid to him by the young damsels at the play; and said, he often walked with them in the streets to hear their tales and give them advice. He advised Rowland to walk with one, and he would take another to beguile the walk. He soon took one, and told another to take Rowland's arm. She grasped it firmly, and they walked on, when the following dialogue took place. "Are you happy in these ways of folly, vice, and danger? What will become of you-you will, ere long, perish with disease, and your soul will be damned for ever!" "Methodism ! curse you, she said, "for a fool," and flew off in a passion. They had not gone far, when by Peachman's intimation, another, whom I shall call Camilla, took his arm, to whom Rowland applied the same questions. "Happy !" said she; "yes, sure, what more delightful than a life of freedom and gaiety?""Do you never have thoughtful moments? Do you never look back upon a parent whom you have left,

and a home which you have forfeited? Do you never recollect the vow of your baptism, 'to renounce the world, the flesh, and the devil,' and wish you had kept it? Do you never think of that glory above, which you have rejected for folly, guilt, and disgrace? Remember, only the pure in heart shall see God!" "Oh! sir," said she," it is of no use to disguise my feelings any longer. I am wretched indeed; I acknowledge all your charges, and all the upbraidings of my conscience. Cursed be the man, who, with angel tongue, undermined my principles and persuaded me to elope with him from a dear parent's roof, and then, after ruining me, deserted me, and left me to earn my bread in a shameless course of seducing others to deeds which in my heart I abhor. Teach me, dear sir, teach me to return to the paths of virtue-how to gain a sustenance by innocent employments, and I shall thank you for ever as my deliverer. The life I lead F detest and abhor. It is vice without friendship-it is disgrace without profit, disease without innocence, suffering without pity, and death without hope. I hate those who support me, and feel a vindictive abhorrence of all the sex that betrayed me. Oh! if they knew how I should like to murder every man that embraces me, they would be more afraid to go with me, than I am of accompanying them. Beware, amiable and inexperienced youth! of the harlot her paths lead down to the chambers of disease, of death, and of hell they that go into her paths often return no more bullies in ambush rob or murder them +their peace, their health, their reputation are destroyed, and they drag on a life of lingering disease, and come to an untimely grave!" Rowland told this honest, though deceived girl, whose penitence he could not doubt, to apply to the Lock Hospital, where she would be kindly received, instructed, supported, and placed in a respectable

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situation; and she expressed her gratitude and her firm resolution to suffer not another day to pass before she applied for admission to that asylum. Rowland took his leave.

As they advanced homewards, Rowland said to Mr. Peachman, "I wonder at your making so light of walking and talking with these unfortunate women. "Oh!" said Peachman," I always do it. But I hope, Rowland, you will never think of going with them." "Such an introduction to them is the way to such a course," said Rowland; "but I hope I shall always consider it as I now do, a heinous crime, and shall always say, 'How can I commit this great wickedness, and sin against God!"" "Well," said Peachman, "if it be a sin, I think it is the easiest that will be forgiven! It I had a son, and he was not fond of the ladies, I should think nothing of him." "Shocking!" said Rowland; "you are in joke, surely. Licentiousness is a sin-whoredom is spoken of as a crime in the word of God, and whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.' Surely you may be attached to the female sex within the bounds which God has prescribed without transgressing the ordinance of Heaven. Surely virtuous love, like yours to your amiable lady,

with vows never broken, and brow never cold,' attached to her alone through life, should be the duty of every rational, every Christian man." He smiled at Rowland's discourse, and then took hold of the arm of another lass, and talked with her nearly all the way home. "This," thought Rowland, " is a bad school into which I have been brought by my college friend; he speaks with exquisite delight of popular preachers, popular actors, and populares · puellæ (Horace.) Such, I fear, is the bagatelle religion of many professors among the dissenters. Am I to take this as a specimen of the loose and undecided religion of

these sectarians, or is the case common among the Londoners, both of the church and of the meeting? "I shall be glad," said he, "when my friend Charles comes to town: I will accompany him to places of greater improvement, and with friends whose advice and conduct

will better guard my principles and my morals."

CHAPTER XXI.

THE MISSIONARY SERMON AND SHIP Duff.

"COME," said Peachman, the next day, " Mrs. Peachman has a better entertainment for you to-day, and more congenial to your disposition than that which you were engaged in with me last night, that is, to hear Dr. Haweis preach at the Tabernacle for this wonderful Missionary Society which they are establishing to the South Sea Islands." They went to hear him, and whom should they meet in the seat but his friend Charles Mortimer, with his friend Mr. Hadley. The friends were most glad to meet each other, Rowland particularly, so much did he long for the counsel and presence of his friend. The sermon began, and the Doctor, growing warm with his subject, painted in such glowing colours the beauty of the summer isles, the lovely verdure, the perpetual spring, the delicious fruits of these fortunate islands, and the amiable natives, who almost in a state of primeval beauty adorned the numerous isles of the sun which bespotted the Pacific Oceanthat an old lady who sat by Charles gave him a smart pinch on the arm, and said, "Young man! do not you long to go out as a missionary ?" "No," said Charles, "I confess the impassioned and flowery eloquence of the preacher has at present wrought in me no such romantic desire." 66 Humph!" said the old lady, "you have no

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