{"1": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n0D020514553", "height": "3786", "width": "2467", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "5\u00c2\u00b0^ SB: *p^ .IK; ^o.\\nv IWR- .mr. 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B. CONKEY COMPANY", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "r\\nr\\nPREFACE.\\nIn introducing to the Public the present\\nedition of this well-known and affecting Tale,\\nthe chef-d oeuvre of its gifted author, the\\npublishers take occasion to say, that it affords\\nthem no little gratification to apprise the nu-\\nmerous admirers of Paul and Virginia, that\\nthe entire work of St. Pierre is now presented\\nto them. All the previous editions have been\\ndisfigured by interpolations, and mutilated by\\nnumerous omissions and alterations, which\\nhave had the effect of reducing it from the\\nrank of a Philosophical Tale to the level of a\\nmere story for children.\\nOf the merits of Paul and Virginia, it is\\nhardly necessary to utter a word it tells its\\nown story eloquently and impressively, and in\\na language simple, natural and true, it touches\\nthe common heart of the world. There are\\nbut few works that have obtained a greater\\ndegree of popularity, none are more deserv-\\ning it and the publishers cannot, therefore,\\nrefrain from expressing a hope that their\\n3", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "4 PREFACE.\\nefforts in thus giving a faithful transcript of\\nthe work, an acknowledged classic by the\\nEuropean world, may be, in some degree,\\ninstrumental in awakening here, at home, a\\ntaste for those higher works of Fancy, which,\\nwhile they seek to elevate and strengthen the\\nunderstanding, instruct and purify the heart.\\nIt is in this character that the Tale of Paul\\nand Virginia ranks pre-eminent.", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "MEMOIR\\nOF\\nBERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE.\\nLove of Nature, that strong feeling of\\nenthusiasm which leads to profound admira-\\ntion of the whole works of creation, belongs, it\\nmay be presumed, to a certain peculiarity of\\norganization, and has, no doubt, existed in\\ndifferent individuals from the beginning of\\nthe world. The old poets and philosophers,\\nromance writers and troubadours had all looked\\nupon Nature with observing and admiring eyes.\\nThey have most of them given incidentally\\ncharming pictures of spring, of the setting sun,\\nof particular spots, and of favorite flowers.\\nThere are few writers of note, of any country\\nor of any age, from whom quotations might not\\nbe made in proof of the love with which they\\nregarded Nature. And this remark applies as\\nmuch to religious and philosophic writers as\\nto poets, equally to Plato, St. Francois de\\n5", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "6 MEMOIR OF\\nSales, Bacon and Fenelon, as to Shakespeare,\\nRacine, Calderon, or Burns; for from no\\nreally philosophic or religious doctrine can the\\nlove of the works of Nature be excluded.\\nBut before the days of Jean Jacques Rous-\\nseau, Buffon, and Bernardin de St. Pierre, this\\nlove of Nature had not been expressed in all\\nits intensity. Until their day, it had not been\\nwritten on exclusively. The lovers of Nature\\nwere not, till then, as they may perhaps since\\nbe considered, a sect apart. Though perfectly\\nsincere in all the adoration they offered, they\\nwere less entirely, and certainly less diligently\\nand constantly, her adorers.\\nIt is the great praise of Bernardin de St.\\nPierre, that coming immediately after Rous-\\nseau and Buffon and being one of the most\\nproficient writers of the same school, he was in\\nno degree their imitator, but perfectly original\\nand new. He intuitively perceived the\\nimmensity of the subject he intended to\\nexplore, and has told us that no day of his life\\npassed without his collecting some valuable\\nmaterials for his writings. In the divine works\\nof Nature, he diligently sought to discover her\\nlaws. It was his early intention not to begin\\nto write until he had ceased to observe but he\\nfound observation endless, and that he was", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE. 7\\nlike a child, who with a shell digs a hole in\\nthe sand to receive the waters of the ocean.\\nHe elsewhere humbly says, that not only the\\ngeneral history of Nature, but even that of the\\nsmallest plant, was far beyond his ability.\\nBefore, however, speaking further of him as\\nan author, it will be necessary to recapitulate\\nthe chief events of his life.\\nHenri-Jacques Bernardin de St. Pierre was\\nborn at Havre in 1737. He always considered\\nhimself descended from Eustache de St. Pierre,\\nwho is said by Froissart (and I believe by\\nFroissart only) to have so generously offered\\nhimself as a victim to appease the wrath of\\nEdward the Third against Calais. He, with\\nhis companions in virtue, it is also said, was\\nsaved by the intercession of Queen Philippa.\\nIn one of his smaller works, Bernardin asserts\\nthis descent, and it was certainly one of which\\nhe might be proud. Many anecdotes are\\nrelated of his childhood, indicative of the youth-\\nful author,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 of his strong love of Nature, and\\nhis humanity to animals.\\nThat the child is father of the man, has\\nbeen seldom more strongly illustrated. There\\nis a story of a cat, which, when related by him\\nmany years afterward to Rousseau, caused that\\nphilosopher to shed tears. At eight years of", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "8 MEMOIR OF\\nage, he took the greatest pleasure in the reg-\\nular culture of his garden and possibly then\\nstored up some of the ideas which afterward\\nappeared in the 4 Fraisier. His sympathy with\\nall living things was extreme.\\nIn Paul and Virginia/ he praises, with\\nevident satisfaction, their meal of milk and\\ne ggf s which had not cost any animal its life.\\nIt has been remarked, and possibly with truth,\\nthat every tenderly disposed heart, deeply\\nimbued with a love of Nature, is at times some-\\nwhat Braminical. St. Pierre s certainly was.\\nWhen quite young, he advanced with a\\nclenched fist toward a carter who was ill-treat-\\ning a horse. And when taken for the first\\ntime, by his father, to Rouen, having the\\ntowers of the cathedral pointed out to him, he\\nexclaimed, My God! how high they fly.\\nEvery one present naturally laughed. Ber-\\nnardin had only noticed the flight of some\\nswallows who had built their nests there. He\\nthus early revealed those instincts which after-\\nward became the guidance of his life: the\\nstrength of which possibly occasioned his too\\ngreat indifference to all monuments of art.\\nThe love of study and of solitude were also\\ncharacteristics of his childhood. His temper\\nis said to have been moody, impetuous, and", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE. 9\\nintractable. Whether this faulty temper may\\nnot have been produced or rendered worse by\\nmismanagement, cannot now be ascertained.\\nIt undoubtedly became afterward, to St.\\nPierre, a fruitful source of misfortune and of\\nwoe.\\nThe reading of voyages was with him, even\\nin childhood, almost a passion. At twelve\\nyears of age, his whole soul was occupied by\\nRobinson Crusoe and his island. His romantic\\nlove of adventure seeming to his parents to\\nannounce a predilection in favor of the sea, he\\nwas sent by them with one of his uncles to\\nMartinique. But St. Pierre had not sufficiently\\npracticed the virtue of obedience to submit, as\\nwas necessary to the discipline of a ship. He\\nwas afterward placed with the Jesuits at Caen,\\nwith whom he made immense progress in his\\nstudies. But, it is to be feared, he did not\\nconform too well to the regulations of the col-\\nlege, for he conceived, from that time, the\\ngreatest detestation for places of public educa-\\ntion. And this aversion he has frequently\\ntestified in his writings. While devoted to his\\nbooks of travels, he in turn anticipated being a\\nJesuit, a missionary or a martyr but his family\\nat length succeeded in establishing him at\\nRouen, where he completed his studies with", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "JO MEMOIR OF\\nbrilliant success, in 1757. He soon after\\nobtained a commission as an engineer, with a\\nsalary of one hundred louis. In this capacity\\nhe was sent (1760) to Dtisseldorf, tinder the\\ncommand of Count St. Germain. This was a\\ncareer in which he might have acquired both\\nhonor and fortune but, most unhappily for St.\\nPierre, he looked upon the useful and neces-\\nsary etiquettes of life of as many unworthy\\nprejudices. Instead of conforming to them,\\nhe sought to trample on them. In addition,\\nhe evinced some disposition to rebel against\\nhis commander, and was unsocial with his\\nequals. It is not, therefore, to be wondered\\nat, that at this unfortunate period of his exist-\\nence, he made himself enemies or that, not-\\nwithstanding his great talents, or the coolness\\nhe had exhibited in moments of danger, he\\nshould have been sent back to France. Unwel-\\ncome, under these circumstances, to his fam-\\nily, he was ill received by all.\\nIt is a lesson yet to be learned, that genius\\ngives no charter for the indulgence of error,\\na truth yet to be remembered, that only a\\nsmall portion of the world will look with len-\\niency on the failings of the highly gifted and,\\nthat from themselves, the consequences of their\\nown actions can never be averted. It is yet,", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0020.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE. 11\\nalas to be added to the convictions of the ar-\\ndent in mind, that no degree of excellence in\\nscience or literature, not even the immortality\\nof a name, can exempt its possessor from obe-\\ndience to moral discipline or give him happi-\\nness, unless temper s image be stamped on\\nhis daily words and actions. St. Pierre s life\\nwas sadly embittered by his own conduct.\\nThe adventurous life he led after his return\\nfrom Dusseldorf, some of the circumstances of\\nwhich exhibited him in an unfavorable light\\nto others, tended, perhaps, to tinge his imag-\\nination with that wild and tender melancholy\\nsp prevalent in his writings. A prize in the\\nlottery had just doubled his very slender means\\nof existence, when he obtained the appoint-\\nment of geographical engineer, and was sent\\nto Malta. The Knights of the Order were at\\nthis time expecting to be attacked by the\\nTurks. Having already been in the service, it\\nwas singular that St. Pierre should have had\\nthe imprudence to sail without his commis-\\nsion. He thus subjected himself to a thousand\\ndisagreeables, for the officers would not recog-\\nnize him as one of themselves. The effects of\\ntheir neglect on his mind were tremendous;\\nhis reason for a time seemed almost disturbed\\nby the mortifications he suffered. After receiv-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0021.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "12 MEMOrR OF\\ning an insufficient indemnity for the expenses\\nof his voyage, St. Pierre returned to France,\\nthere to endure fresh misfortunes.\\nNot being able to obtain any assistance from\\nthe ministry or his family y he resolved on giv-\\ning lessons in the mathematics. But St. Pierre\\nwas less adapted than most others for succeed-\\ning in the apparently easy, but really ingeni-\\nous and difficult, art of teaching. When edu-\\ncation is better understood, it will be more gen-\\nerally acknowledged, that, to impart instruction\\nwith success, a teacher must possess deeper in-\\ntelligence than is implied by the profoundest\\nskill in any one branch of science or of art.\\nAll minds, even to the youngest, require, while\\nbeing taught, the utmost compliance and con-\\nsideration and these qualities can scarcely be\\nproperly exercised without a true knowledge\\nof the human heart, united to much practical\\npatience. St. Pierre, at this period of his life,\\ncertainly did not possess them. It is probable\\nthat Rousseau, when he attempted in his youth\\nto give lessons in music, not knowing anything\\nwhatever of music, was scarcely less fitted for\\nthe task of instruction than St. Pierre with all\\nhis mathematical knowledge. The pressure of\\npoverty drove him to Holland. He was well\\nreceived at Amsterdam, by a French refugee", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0022.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE. 13\\nnamed Mustel, who edited a popular journal\\nthere, and who procured him employment, with\\nhandsome remuneration. St. Pierre did not,\\nhowever, remain long* satisfied with this quiet\\nmode of existence. Allured by the encourag-\\ning reception given by Catherine II. to foreign-\\ners, he set out for St. Petersburg. Here, until\\nhe obtained the protection of the Marechal de\\nMunich, and the friendship of Duval, he had\\nagain to contend with poverty. The latter\\ngenerously opened to him his purse, and by the\\nMarechal he was introduced to Villebois the\\nGrand Master of Artillery, and by him pre-\\nsented to the Empress. St. Pierre was so\\nhandsome, that by some of his friends it was\\nsupposed, perhaps, too, hoped, that he would\\nsupersede Orloff in the favor of Catherine. But\\nmore honorable illusions, though they were\\nbut illusions, occupied his own mind. He nei-\\nther sought nor wished to captivate the Em-\\npress. His ambition was to establish a repub-\\nlic on the shores of the lake Aral, of which, in\\nimitation of Plato or Rousseau, he was to be\\nthe legislator. Preoccupied with the reforma-\\ntion of despotism, he did not sufficiently look\\ninto his own heart, or seek to avoid a repeti-\\ntion of the same errors that had already\\nchanged friends into enemies, and been such a", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0023.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "14 MEMOIR OF\\nterrible barrier to his success in life. His min\\nwas already morbid, and in fancying that\\nothers did not understand him, he forgot that\\nhe did not understand others. The Empress,\\nwith the rank of captain, bestowed on him a\\ngrant of fifteen hundred francs; but when\\nGeneral Dubosquet proposed to take him with\\nhim to examine the military position of\\nFinland, his only anxiety seemed to be to\\nreturn to France; still he went to Finland,*\\nand his own notes of his occupations and\\nexperiments on that expedition prove, that he\\ngave himself up in all diligence to considera-\\ntions of attack and defense. He, who loved\\nNature so intently, seems only to have seen in\\nthe extensive and majestic forests of the north,\\na theater of war. In this instance, he appears\\nto have stifled every emotion of admiration,\\nand to have beheld, alike, cities and countries\\nin his character of military surveyor.\\nOn his return to St. Petersburg, he found\\nhis protector, Villebois, disgraced. St. Pierre\\nthen resolved on espousing the cause of the\\nPoles. He went into Poland with a high repu-\\ntation, that of having refused the favors of\\ndespotism, to aid the cause of liberty. But it\\nwas his private life, rather than his public ca-\\nreer, that was affected by his residence in Po-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0024.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "~$ERNARDIN DE ST, PIERRE. 15\\nland. The Princess Mary fell in love with him,\\nand, forgetful of all considerations, quitted her\\nfamily to reside with him. Yielding, however,\\nat length, to the entreaties of her mother, she\\nreturned to her home. St. Pierre, filled with\\nregret, resorted to Vienna but, unable to sup-\\nport the sadness which oppressed him, and im-\\nagining that sadness to be shared by the Prin-\\ncess, he soon went back to Poland. His return\\nwas still more sad than his departure for he\\nfound himself regarded by her who had once\\nloved him, as an intruder. It is to this attach-\\nment he alludes so touchingly in one of his let-\\nters. Adieu! friends dearer than the treas-\\nures of India Adieu forests of the North,\\nthat I shall never see again tender friend-\\nship, and the still dearer sentiments which\\nsurpassed it days of intoxication and of hap-\\npiness! adieu! adieu! We live but for a day,\\nto die during a whole life!\\nThis letter appears to one of St. Pierre s\\nmost partial biographers, as if steeped in tears\\nand he speaks of his romantic and unfortunate\\nadventure in Poland, as the ideal of a poet s\\nlove.\\nTo be, says M. Sainte-Beuve, a great\\npoet, and loved before he had thought of glory\\nTo exhale the first perfume of a soul of genius,", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0025.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "16 MEMOIR OF\\nbelieving himself only a lover To reveal him-\\nself, for the first time, entirely, but in mys-\\ntery\\nIn his enthusiasm, M. Sainte-Beuve loses\\nsight of the melancholy sequel, which must\\nhave left so sad a remembrance in St. Pierre s\\nown mind. His suffering, from this circum-\\nstance may perhaps have conduced to his mak-\\ning Virginia so good and true, and so incapable\\nof giving pain.\\nIn 1766, he returned to Havre; but his rela-\\ntion, were by this time dead or dispersed, and\\nafter six years of exile, he found himself once\\nmore in his own country, without employment\\nand destitute of pecuniary resources.\\nThe Baron de Breteuil at length obtained for\\nhim a commission as Engineer to the Isle of\\nFrance, whence he returned in 177 1. In this\\ninterval, his heart and imagination doubtless\\nreceived the germs of his immortal works.\\nMany of the events, indeed, of the Voyage a\\nTile de France, are to be found modified by\\nimagined circumstances in Paul and Vir-\\nginia. He returned to Paris poor in purse,\\nbut rich in observation and mental resources,\\nand resolved to devote himself to literature. By\\nthe Baron de Breteuil he was recommended to\\nD A1 ember t, who procured a publisher for his", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0026.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE. 17\\nVoyage, and also introduced him to Mile,\\nde l Espinasse.\\nBut no one, in spite of his great beauty, was\\nso ill calculated to shine or please in society\\nas St. Pierre. His manners were timid and\\nembarrassed, and, unless to those with whom\\nhe was very intimate, he scarcely appeared\\nintelligent.\\nIt is sad to think, that misunderstanding\\nshould prevail to such an extent, and heart so\\nseldom really speak to heart, in the intercourse\\nof the world, that the most humane may appear\\ncruel, and the sympathizing indifferent. Judg-\\ning of Mile, de l Espinasse from her letters,\\nand the testimony of her contemporaries, it\\nseems quite impossible that she could have\\ngiven pain to any one, more particularly to a\\nman possessing St. Pierre s extraordinary and\\nprofound sensibility. Both she and D Alem-\\nbert were capable of appreciating him but the\\nsociety in which they moved laughed at his\\ntimidity, and the tone of raillery in which they\\noften indulged was not understood by him. It\\nis certain that he withdrew from their circle\\nwith wounded and mortified feelings, and, in\\nspite of an explanatory letter from D Alem-\\nbert, did not return to it. The inflictors of all\\nthis pain, in the meantime, were possibly as\\n2 Paul and Virginia", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0027.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "18 MEMOIR OF\\nunconscious of the meaning attached to their\\nwords, as were the birds of old of the augury\\ndrawn from their flight.\\nSt. Pierre, in his Preambule de l Arcadie,\\nhas pathetically and eloquently described the\\ndeplorable state of his health and feelings,\\nafter frequent humiliating disputes and disap-\\npointments had driven him from society; or,\\nrather, when, like Rousseau, he was self-ban-\\nished from it.\\nI was struck, he says, with an extraordi-\\nnary malady. Streams of fire, like lightning,\\nflashed before my eyes; every object appeared\\nto me double, or in motion; like (Edipus, I\\nsaw two suns. In the finest day of summer,\\nI could not cross the Seine in a boat without\\nexperiencing intolerable anxiety. If, in a pub-\\nlic garden, I merely passed by a piece of water,\\nI suffered from spasms and a feeling of horror.\\nI could not cross a garden in which many peo-\\nple were collected if they looked at me, I im-\\nmediately imagined they were speaking ill of\\nme. It was during this state of suffering that\\nhe devoted himself with ardor to collecting and\\nmaking use of materials for that work which\\nwas to give glory to his name.\\nIt was only by perseverance, and disregard-\\ning many rough and discouraging receptions,", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0028.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE. 19\\nthat he succeeded in making acquaintance with\\nRousseau, whom he so much resembled. St.\\nPierre devoted himself to his society with en-\\nthusiasm, visiting him frequently and con-\\nstantly, till Rousseau departed for Ermenon-\\nville. It is not unworthy of remark, that both\\nthese men, such enthusiastic admirers of Na-\\nture and the natural in all things, should have\\npossessed factitious rather than practical vir-\\ntue, and a wisdom wholly unfitted for the\\nworld. St. Pierre asked Rousseau, in one of\\ntheir frequent rambles, if in delineating St.\\nPreux, he had not intended to represent him-\\nself. No, replied Rousseau, St. Preux is\\nnot what I have been, but what I wish to be.\\nSt. Pierre would most likely have given the\\nsame answer, had a similar question been put\\nto him with regard to the Colonel in Paul\\nand Virginia. This, at least, appears the sort\\nof old age he loved to contemplate, and wished\\nto realize.\\nFor six years, he worked at his Etudes/\\nand with some difficulty found a publisher for\\nthem. M. Didot, a celebrated typographer,\\nwhose daughter St. Pierre afterwards married,\\nconsented to print a manuscript which had been\\ndeclined by many others. He was well re-\\nwarded for the undertaking. The success of", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0029.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "20 MEMOIR OF\\nthe Etudes de la Nature surpassed the most\\nsanguine expectation, even of the author.\\nFour years after its publication, St. Pierre gave\\nto the world Paul and Virginia, which had\\nfor some time been lying in his portfolio. He\\nhad tried its effect, in manuscript, on persons\\nof different characters and pursuits. They\\nhad given it no applause, but all had shed\\ntears at its perusal and perhaps few works of\\na decidedly romantic character have ever been\\nso generally read, or so much approved.\\nAmong the great names whose admiration of\\nit is on record, may be mentioned Napoleon\\nand Humboldt.\\nIn 1789, he published Les Voeux d un Soli-\\ntaire, and La Suite des Voeux. By the\\nMoniteur of the day, these works were com-\\npared to the celebrated pamphlet of Sieyes,\\nQu est-ce que le tiers etat? which then ab-\\nsorbed all the public favor. In 1791, La\\nChaumiere Indienne was published; and in\\nthe following year, about thirteen days before\\nthe celebrated 10th of August, Louis XVI.\\nappointed St. Pierre superintendent of the\\nJardin des Plantes. Soon afterwards, the\\nKing, on seeing him, complimented him on\\nhis writings, and told him he was happy to\\nhave found a worthy successor to Bufion.", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0030.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE. 21\\nAlthough deficient in the exact knowledge of\\nthe sciences, and knowing little of the world,\\nSt. Pierre was, by his simplicity, and the re-\\ntirement in which he lived, well suited, at that\\nepoch, to the situation. About this time, and\\nwhen in his fifty-seventh year, he married Mile.\\nDidot.\\nIn 1795, h e became a member of the French\\nAssembly, and, as was just^ after his accept-\\nance of this honor, he wrote no more against\\nliterary societies. On the suppression of this\\nplace, he retired to Essome It is delightful\\nto follow him there, and to contemplate his\\nquiet existence. His days flowed on peace-\\nably, occupied in the publication of *Les Har-\\nmonies de la Nature/ the republication of his\\nearlier works, and the composition of some\\nlesser pieces. He himself affectingly regrets\\nan interruption to these occupations. On be-\\ning appointed Instructor to the Normal School,\\nhe says, I am obliged to hang my harp on\\nthe willows of my river, and to accept an em-\\nployment useful to my family and my country.\\nI am afflicted at having to suspend an occupa-\\ntion which has given me so much happiness/\\nHe enjoyed in his old age a degree of opu-\\nlence which, as much as glory, had perhaps\\nbeen the object of his ambition. In any case,", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0031.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "22 MEMOIR OF\\nit is gratifying to reflect, that after a life so full\\nof chance and change, he was, in his latter\\nyears, surrounded by much that should accom-\\npany old age. His day of storms and tempests\\nwas closed by an evening of repose and beauty.\\nAmid many other blessings, the elasticity of\\nhis mind was preserved to the last. He died\\nat Eragny sur l Oise, on the 21st of January,\\n1 814. The stirring events which then occu-\\npied France, or rather the whole world, caused\\nhis death to be little noticed at the time. The\\nAcademy did not, however, neglect to give him\\nthe honor due to its members. Mons. Parseval\\nGrand Maison pronounced a deserved eulogium\\non his talents, and Mons. Aignan, also, the\\ncustomary tribute, taking his seat as his suc-\\ncessor.\\nHaving himself contracted the habit of con-\\nfiding his griefs and sorrows to the public, the\\nsanctuary of his private life was open alike to\\nthe discussion of friends and enemies. The\\nbiographer, who wishes to be exact, and yet\\nset down naught in malice, is forced to the con-\\ntemplation of his errors. The secret of many\\nof these, as well as of his miseries, seems re-\\nvealed by himself in this sentence: I experi-\\nence more pain from a single thorn, than pleas-\\nure from a thousand roses. And elsewhere,", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0032.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE. 23\\nThe best society seems to me bad, if I find in\\nit one troublesome, wicked, slanderous, envi-\\nous, or perfidious person. Now, taking into\\nconsideration that St. Pierre sometimes imag-\\nined persons who were really good, to be de-\\nserving of these strong and very contumacious\\nepithets, it would have been difficult indeed to\\nfind a society in which he could have been\\nhappy. He was therefoere wise in seeking re-\\ntiremnent, and indulging in solitude. His mis-\\ntakes, for they were mistakes, arose from a\\ntoo quick perception of evil, united to an ex-\\nquisite and diffuse sensibility. When he felt\\nwounded by a thorn, he forgot the beauty and\\nperfume of the rose to which it belonged, and\\nfrom which perhaps it could not be separated\\nAnd he was exposed (as often happens) to the\\nvery description of trials that were least in har-\\nmony with his defects. Few dispositions could\\nhave run a career like his, and have remained\\nunscathed. But one less tender than his own\\nwould have been less soured by it. For many\\nyears, he bore about with him the conscious-\\nness of unacknowledged talent. The world\\ncannot be blamed for not appreciating that\\nwhich had never been revealed. But we know\\nnot what the jostling and elbowing of that\\nworld, in the meantime, may have been to him", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0033.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "24 MEMOIR OF\\nhow often he may have felt himself unwor-\\nthily treated or how far that treatment may\\nhave preyed upon and corroded his heart. Who\\nshall say that with this consciousness there did\\nnot mingle a quick and instinctive perception\\nof the hidden motives of action, that he did\\nnot sometimes detect, where others might have\\nbeen blind, the under-shuffling of the hands, in\\nthe by-play of the world?\\nThrough all his writings, and throughout his\\ncorrespondence, there are beautiful proofs of\\nthe tenderness of his feelings, the most essen-\\ntial quality, perhaps, In any writer. It is at\\nleast one that if not possessed, can never be\\nattained. The familiarity of his imagination\\nwith natural objects, when he was living far\\nremoved from them, is remarkable, and often\\naffecting.\\nI have arranged, he says to Mr. Henin,\\nhis friend and patron, very interesting mate-\\nrials, but it is only with the light of Heaven\\nover me that I can recover my strength. Ob-\\ntain for me a rabbit s hole, in which I may pass\\nthe summer in the country. And again,\\nWith the first violet, I shall come to see you.\\nIt is soothing to find, in passages like these,\\nsuch pleasing and convincing evidence that\\nNature never did betray\\nThe heart that loved her.", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0034.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE. 25\\nIn the noise of a great city, in the midst of\\nannoyances of many kinds, these images,\\nimpressed with quietness and beauty, came\\nback to the mind of St. Pierre, to cheer and\\nanimate him.\\nIn alluding to his miseries, it is but fair to\\nquote a passage from his Voyage, which\\nreveals his fond remembrance of his native\\nland. I should ever prefer my own country\\nto every other, he says, not because it was\\nmore beautiful, but because I was brought up\\nin it. Happy he, who sees again the places\\nwhere all was loved, and all was lovely! the\\nmeadows in which he played, and the orchard\\nthat he robbed!\\nHe returned to this country, so fondly loved\\nand deeply cherished in absence, to experience\\nonly trouble and difficulty. Away from it, he\\nhad yearned to behold it, to fold it, as it were,\\nonce more to his bosom. He returned to feel\\nas if neglected by it, and all his rapturous emo-\\ntions were changed to bitterness and gall. His\\nhopes had proved delusions his expectations,\\nmockeries. Oh! who but must look with\\ncharity and mercy on all discontent and irrita-\\ntion consequent on such a depth of disappoint-\\nment: on what must have then appeared to him\\nsuch unmitlgable woe. Under the influence of", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0035.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "26 MEMOIR OF\\nthese saddened feelings, his thoughts flew back\\nto the island he had left, to place all beauty,\\nas well as all happiness there\\nOne great proof that he did beautify the dis-\\ntant, may be found in the contrast of some of\\nthe descriptions in the Voyage a Tile de\\nFrance, and those in Paul and Virginia.\\nThat spot, which, when peopled by the cher-\\nished creatures of his imagination, he described\\nas an enchanting and delightful Eden, he had\\npreviously spoken of as a rugged country\\ncovered with rocks, a land of Cyclops black-\\nened by fire. Truth, probably, lies between\\nthe two representations; the sadness of exile\\nhaving darkened the one, and the exhubeiance\\nof his imagination embellished the other.\\nSt. Pierre s merit as an author has been too\\nlong and too universally acknowledged, to make\\nit needful that it should be dwelt on here. A\\ncareful review of the circumstances of his life\\ninduces the belief, that his writings grew (if it\\nmay be permitted so to speak) out of his life.\\nIn the most imaginative passages, to whatever\\nheight his fancy soared, the starting point seems\\never from a fact. The past appears to have\\nbeen always spread out before him when he\\nwrote, like a beautiful landscape, on which his\\neye rested with complacency, and from which", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0036.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE. 27\\nhis mind transferred and idealized some objects,\\nwithout a servile imitation of any. When at\\nBerlin, he had had it in his power to marry\\nVirginia Tabenheim and in Russia, Mile, de la\\nTour, the niece of General Dubosquet, would\\nhave accepted his hand. He was too poor to\\nmarry either. A grateful recollection caused\\nhim to bestow the names of the two on his most\\nbeloved creation. Paul was the name of a\\nfriar, with whom he had associated in his child-\\nhood, and whose life he wished to imitate.\\nHow little had the owners of these names\\nanticipated that they were to become the bap-\\ntismal appellations of half a generation in\\nFrance, and to be re-echoed through the world\\nto the end of time\\nIt was St. Pierre who first discovered the\\npoverty of language with regard to picturesque\\ndescriptions. In his earliest work, the often-\\nquoted Voyage, he complains that the terms\\nfor describing nature are not yet invented.\\nEndeavor, he says, to describe a mountain\\nin such a manner that it may be recognized.\\nWhen you have spoken of its base, its sides, its\\nsummits, you will have said all But what\\nvariety there is to be found in those swelling,\\nlengthened, flattened, or cavernous forms! It\\nis only by periphrasis that all this can be", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0037.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "28 MEMOIR OF\\nexpressed. The same difficulty exists for\\nplains and valleys. But if you have a palace to\\ndescribe, there is no longer any difficulty.\\nEvery molding has its appropriate name.\\nIt was St. Pierre s glory, in some degree, to\\ntriumph over this dearth of expression. Few\\nauthors ever introduced more new terms into\\ndescriptive writing: yet are his innovations\\never chastened, and in good taste. His style,\\nin its elegant simplicity, is, indeed, perfection.\\nIt is at once sonorous and sweet, and always\\nin harmony with the sentiment he would\\nexpress, or the subject he would discuss.\\nChenier might well arm himself with Paul\\nand Virginia, and the Chaumiere Indienne,\\nin opposition to those writers, who, as he said,\\nmade prose unnatural, by seeking to elevate it\\ninto verse.\\nThe Etudes de la Nature embraced a\\nthousand different subjects, and contained\\nsome new ideas on all. It is to the honor of\\nhuman nature, that after the uptearing of so\\nmany sacred opinions, a production like this\\nrevealing the chain of connection through the\\nworks of Creation, and the Creator in his\\nworks, should have been hailed, as it was, with\\nenthusiasm.\\nHis motto, from his favorite poet Virgil,", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0038.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE. 29\\nTaught by calamity, I pity the unhappy/\\nwon for him, perhaps, many readers. And in\\nits touching illusions, the unhappy may have\\nfound suspension from the realities of life, as\\nwell as encouragement to support its trials.\\nFor, throughout, it infuses admiration of the\\narrangements of Providence, and a desire for\\nvirtue. More than one modern poet may be\\nsupposed to have drawn a portion of his inspi-\\nration, from the Etudes. As a work of\\nscience it contains many errors. These, par-\\nticularly his theory of the tides,* St. Pierre\\nmaintained to the last, and so eloquently, that\\nit was said at the time, to be impossible to unite\\nless reason with more logic.\\nIn Paul and Virginia, he was supremely\\nfortunate in his subject. It was an entirely\\nnew creation, uninspired by any previous work\\nbut which gave birth to many others, having\\nfurnished the plot to six theatrical pieces. It\\nwas a subject to which the author could bring\\nall his excellences as a writer and man, while\\nhis deficiencies and defects were necessarily\\nexcluded. In no manner could he incorporate\\npolitics, science, or misapprehension of persons,\\nwhile his sensibility, morals, and wonderful\\n*Occasioned, according to St. Pierre, by the melting\\nof the ice at the Poles.", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0039.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "30 MEMOIR OF\\ntalent for description, were in perfect accord-\\nance with, and ornaments to it. Lemontey and\\nSainte-Beuve both consider success to be insep-\\narable from the happy selection of a story so\\nentirely in harmony with the character of the\\nauthor; and that the most successful writers\\nmight envy him so fortunate a choice. Bona-\\nparte was in the habit of saying, whenever he\\nsaw St. Pierre, M. Bernardin, when do you\\nmean to give us more Pauls and Virginias, and\\nIndian Cottages? You ought to give us some\\nevery six months.\\nThe Indian Cottage, if not quite equal in\\ninterest to Paul and Virginia/ is still a\\ncharming production, and does great honor\\nto the genius of its author. It abounds in\\nantique and Eastern gems of thought. Strik-\\ning and excellent comparisons are scattered\\nthrough its pages; and it is delightful to\\nreflect, that the following beautiful and solemn\\nanswer of the Paria was, with St. Pierre, the\\nresult of his own experience: Misfortune\\nresembles the Black Mountain of Bember,\\nsituated at the extremity of the burning king-\\ndom of Lahore while you are climbing it, you\\nonly see before you barren rocks; but when\\nyou have reached its summit, you see heaven", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0040.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE. 31\\nabove your head, and at your feet the kingdom\\nof Cachemere.\\nWhen this passage was written, the rugged\\nand sterile rock had been climbed by its gifted\\nauthor. He had reached the summit, his\\ngenius had been rewarded, and he himself\\nsaw the heaven he wished to point out to others.\\nSarah Jones.\\nFor the facts contained in this brief Memoir, I am\\nindeted to St. Pierre s own works, to the Biographie\\nUniverselle, to the Essai sur la Vie et les Ouvrages\\nde Bernardin de St. Pierre, by M. Aime Martin, and to\\nthe very excellent and interesting Notice Historique\\net Litteraire, of M. Sainte Beuve.", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0041.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0042.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nSituate on the eastern side of the mountain\\nwhich rises above Port Louis, in the Mauritius,\\nupon a piece of land bearing the marks of\\nformer cultivation, are seen the ruins of two\\nsmall cottages. These ruins are not far from\\nthe center of a valley, formed by immense\\nrocks, and which opens only towards the\\nnorth. On the left rises the mountain called\\nthe Height of Discovery, whence the eye\\nmarks the distant sail when it first touches the\\nverge of the horizon, and whence the signal is\\ngiven when a vessel approaches the island.\\nAt the foot of this mountain stands the town of\\nPort Louis. On the right is formed the road\\nwhich stretches from Port Louis to the Shad-\\ndock Grove, where the church bearing that\\nname lifts its head, surrounded by its avenues\\nof bamboo, in the middle of a spacious plain\\nand the prospect terminates in a forest extend-\\ning to the furthest bounds of the island. The\\nfront view presents the bay, denominated the\\n8 Paul and Virginia 3o", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0043.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "34 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nBay of the Tomb; a little on the right is seen\\nthe Cape of Misfortune and beyond rolls the\\nexpanded ocean, on the surface of which ap-\\npears a few uninhabited islands; and, among\\nothers, the Point of Endeavor, which resem-\\nbles a bastion built upon the flood.\\nAt the entrance of the valley which presents\\nthese various objects, the echoes of the moun-\\ntain incessantly repeat the hollow murmurs of\\nthe winds that shake the neighboring forests,\\nand the tumultuous dashing of the waves\\nwhich break at a distance upon the cliffs; but\\nnear the ruined cottages all is calm and still,\\nand the only objects which there meet the eye\\nare rude steep rocks, that rise like a surround-\\ning rampart. Large clumps of trees grow at\\ntheir base, on their rifted sides, and even on\\ntheir majestic tops, where the clouds seem to\\nrepose. The showers, which their bold points\\nattract, often paint the vivid colors of the rain-\\nbow on their green and brown declivities, and\\nswell the sources of the little river which flows\\nat their feet, called the river of Fan-Palms.\\nWithin this inclosure reigns the most profound\\nsilence. The waters, the air, all the elements\\nare at peace. Scarcely does the echo repeat\\nthe whispers of the palm-trees, spreading their\\nbroad leaves, the long points of which are", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0044.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 35\\ngently agitated by the winds. A soft light\\nillumines the bottom of this deep valley, on\\nwhich the sun shines only at noon. But, even\\nat break of day, the rays of light are thrown\\non the surrounding rocks; and their sharp\\npeaks, rising above the shadows of the moun-\\ntains, appear like tints of gold and purple\\ngleaming upon the azure sky.\\nTo this scene I loved to resort, as I could\\nhere enjoy at once the richness of an un-\\nbounded landscape, and the charm of uninter-\\nrupted solitude. One day, when I was seated\\nat the foot of the cottages, and contemplating\\ntheir ruins, a man, advanced in years, passed\\nnear the spot. He was dressed in the ancient\\ngarb of the island, his feet were bare, and he\\nleaned upon a staff of ebony; his hair was\\nwhite, and the expression of his countenance\\nwas dignified and interesting. I bowed to him\\nwith respect he returned the salutation and,\\nafter looking at me with some earnestness,\\ncame and placed himself upon the hillock on\\nwhich I was seated. Encouraged by this\\nmark of confidence, I thus addressed him:\\n4 Father, can you tell me to whom those cot-\\ntages once belonged? My son, replied the\\nold man, those heaps of rubbish, and that un-\\ntilled land, were, twenty years ago, the prop-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0045.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "36 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nerty of two families, who then found happi-\\nness in this solitude. Their history is affect-\\ning; but what European, pursuing his way to\\nthe Indies, will pause one moment to interest\\nhimself in the fate of a few obscure individu-\\nals? What European can picture happiness to\\nhis imagination amidst poverty and neglect?\\nThe curiosity of mankind is only attracted by\\nthe history of the great, and yet from that\\nknowledge little use can be derived.\\nFather, I rejoined, from your manner and\\nyour observations, I perceive that you have ac-\\nquired much experience of human life. If you\\nhave leisure, relate to me, I beseech you, the\\nhistory of the ancient inhabitants of this desert\\nand be assured, that even the men who are\\nmost perverted by the prejudices of the world,\\nfind a soothing pleasure in contemplating that\\nhappiness which belongs to simplicity and\\nvirtue. The old man, after a short silence,\\nduring which he leaned his face upon his\\nhands, as if he were trying to recall the images\\nof the past, thus began his narration\\nMonsieur de la Tour, a young man who was\\na native of Normandy, after having in vain\\nsolicited a commission in the French army, or\\nsome support from his own family, at length\\ndetermined to seek his fortune in this island,", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0046.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 37\\nwhere he arrived in 1726. He brought hither\\na young woman, whom he loved tenderly, and\\nby whom he was no less tenderly beloved. She\\nbelonged to a rich and ancient family of the\\nsame province but he had married her secretly\\nand without fortune, and in opposition to the\\nwill of her relations, who refused their consent\\nbecause he was found guilty of being descended\\nfrom parents who had no claims to nobility.\\nMonsieur de la Tour, leaving his wife at Port\\nLouis, embarked for Madagascar, in order to\\npurchase a few slaves, to assist him in forming\\na plantation on this island. He landed at\\nMadagascar during that unhealthy season\\nwhich commences about the middle of October;\\nand soon after his arrival died of the pestilen-\\ntial fever, which prevails in that island six\\nmonths of the year, and which will forever\\nbaffle the attempts of the European nations to\\nform establishments on that fatal soil. His\\neffects were seized upon by the rapacity of\\nstrangers, as commonly happens to persons\\ndying in foreign parts and his wife, who was\\npregnant, found herself a widow in a country\\nwhere she had neither credit nor acquaintance,\\nand no earthly possession, or rather support,\\nbut one negro woman. Too delicate to solicit\\nprotection or relief from any one else after the", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0047.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "38 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\ndeath of him whom alone she loved, misfortune\\narmed her with courage, and she resolved to\\ncultivate, with her slave, a little spot of\\nground, and procure for herself the means of\\nsubsistence.\\nDesert as was the island, and the ground left\\nto the choice of the settler, she avoided those\\nspots which were most fertile and most favor-\\nable to commerce: seeking some nook of the\\nmountain, some secret asylum where she might\\nlive solitary and unknown, she bent her way\\nfrom the town towards these rocks, where she\\nmight conceal herself from observation. All\\nsensitive and suffering creatures, from a sort\\nof common instinct, fly for refuge amidst the\\npains to haunts the most wild and desolate as\\nif rocks could form a rampart against misfor-\\ntune as if the calm of Nature could hush the\\ntumults of the soul. That Providence, which\\nlends its support when we ask but the supply\\nof our necessary wants, had a blessing in re-\\nserve for Madame de la Tour, which neither\\nriches nor greatness can purchase: this bless-\\ning was a friend.\\nThe spot to which Madame de la Tour had\\nfled had already been inhabited for a year by\\na young woman of a lively, good-natured and\\naffectionate disposition. Margaret (for that", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0048.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 39\\nwas her name) was born in Brittany, of a fam-\\nily of peasants, by whom she was cherished\\nand beloved, and with whom she might have\\npassed through life in simple rustic happiness,\\nif, misled by the weakness of a tender heart,\\nshe had not listened to the passion of a gentle-\\nman in the neighborhood, who promised her\\nmarriage. He soon abandoned her, and add-\\ning inhumanity to seduction, refused to insure\\na provision for the child of which she was\\npregnant. Margaret then determined to leave\\nforever her native village, and retire, where\\nher fault might be concealed, to some colony\\ndistant from that country where she had lost\\nthe only portion of a poor peasant girl her\\nreputation. With some borrowed money she\\npurchased an old negro slave, with whom she\\ncultivated a little corner of this district.\\nMadame de la Tour, followed by her negro\\nwoman, came to this spot, where she found\\nMargaret engaged in suckling her child.\\nSoothed and charmed by the sight of a person\\nin a situation somewhat similar to her own,\\nMadame de la Tour related, in a few words,\\nher past condition and her present wants. Mar-\\ngaret was deeply affected by the recital and\\nmore anxious to merit confidence than to create\\nesteem, she confessed without disguise, the", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0049.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "40 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nerrors of which she had been guilty. As for\\nme, said she, I deserve my fate: but you,\\nmadam you! at once virtuous and unhappy,\\nand, sobbing, she offered Madame de la Tour\\nboth her hut and her friendship. That lady,\\naffected by this tender reception, pressed her\\nin her arms, and exclaimed, Ah, surely\\nHeaven has put an end to my misfortunes,\\nsince it inspires you, to whom I am a stranger,\\nwith more goodness towards me than I have\\never experienced from my own relations!\\nI was acquainted with Margaret: and, al-\\nthough my habitation is a league and a half\\nfrom hence, in the woods behind that sloping\\nmountain, I considered myself as her neighbor.\\nIn the cities of Europe, a street, even a simple\\nwall, frequently prevents members of the same\\nfamily from meeting for years but in new col-\\nonies we consider those persons as neighbors\\nfrom whom we are divided only by woods and\\nmountains; and, above all, at that period,\\nwhen this island had little intercourse with\\nthe Indies, vicinity alone gave a claim to\\nfriendship, and hospitality towards strangers\\nseemed less a duty than a pleasure. No sooner\\nwas I informed that Margaret had found a com-\\npanion, than I hastened to her, in the hope of\\nbeing useful to my neighbor and her guest. I", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0050.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 41\\nfound Madame de la Tour possessed of all\\nthose melancholy graces which, by blending\\nsmypathy with admiration gave to beauty ad-\\nditional power. Her countenance was interest-\\ning, expressive at once of dignity and dejection.\\nShe appeared to be in the last stage of her\\npregnancy. I told the two friends that for the\\nfuture interest of their children, and to prevent\\nthe intrusion of any other settler, they had\\nbetter divide between them the property of this\\nwild, sequestered valley, which is nearly\\ntwenty acres in extent. They confided that\\ntask to me, and I marked out two equal por-\\ntions of land. One included the higher part of\\nthis inclosure, from the cloudy pinnacle of that\\nrock, whence springs the river of Fan-Palms,\\nto that precipitous cleft which you see on the\\nsummit of the mountain, and which, from its\\nresemblance in form to the battlement of a\\nfortress, is called the Embrasure. It is diffi-\\ncult to find a path along this wild portion of\\nthe inclosure, the soil of which is encumbered\\nwith fragments of rock, or worn into channels\\nformed by torrents; yet it produces noble\\ntrees, and innumerable springs and rivulets.\\nThe other portion of land comprised the plain\\nextending along the banks of the river of Fan-\\nPalms, to the opening where we are now", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0051.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "42 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nseated, whence the river takes its course be-\\ntween those two hills, until it falls into the sea.\\nYou may still trace the vestiges of some mea-\\ndow land; and this part of the common is less\\nrugged, but not more valuable than the other;\\nsince in the rainy season it becomes marshy,\\nand in dry weather is so hard and unyielding,\\nthat it will almost resist the stroke of a pickax.\\nWhen I had thus divided the property, I per-\\nsuaded my neighbors to draw lots for their re-\\nspective possessions. The higher portion of\\nland, containing the source of the river of\\nFan-Palms, became the property of Madame\\nde la Tour; the lower, comprising the plain on\\nthe banks of the river, was allotted to Marga-\\nret; and each seemed satisfied with her share.\\nThey entreated me to place their habitations\\ntogether, that they might at all times enjoy\\nthe soothing intercourse of friendship, and the\\nconsolation of mutual kind offices. Margaret s\\ncottage was situated near the center of the val-\\nley, and just on the boundary of her own plan-\\ntation. Close to that spot I built another cot-\\ntage for the residence of Madame de la Tour;\\nand thus the two friends, while they possessed\\nall the advantages of neighborhood, lived on\\ntheir own property. I myself cut palisades\\nfrom the mountain, and brought leaves of fan", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0052.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 43\\npalms from the sea-shore in order to construct\\nthose two cottages, of which you can now dis-\\ncern neither the entrance nor the roof. Yet,\\nalas! there still remain but too many traces for\\nmy remembrance! Time, which so rapidly\\ndestroys the proud monuments of empires,\\nseems in this desert to spare those of friendship,\\nas if to perpetuate my regrets to the last hour\\nof my existence.\\nAs soon as the second cottage was finished,\\nMadame de la Tour was delivered of a girl. I\\nhad been the godfather of Margaret s child,\\nwho was christened by the name of Paul.\\nMadame de la Tour desired me to perform the\\nsame office for her child also, together with her\\nfriend, who gave her the name of Virginia.\\nShe will be virtuous, cried Margaret, and\\nshe will be happy. I have only known misfor-\\ntune by wandering from virtue.\\nAbout the time Madame de la Tour recov-\\nered, these two little estates had already begun\\nto yield some produce, perhaps in a small de-\\ngree owing to the care which I occasionally be-\\nstowed on their improvement, but far more to\\nthe indefatigable labors of the two slaves.\\nMargaret s slave, who was called Domingo,\\nwas still healthy and robust, though advanced\\nin years: he possessed some knowledge, and a", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0053.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "44 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\ngood natural understanding. He cultivate*\\nindiscriminately, on both plantations, the spots\\nof ground that seemed most fertile, and sowed\\nwhatever grain he thought most congenial to\\neach particular soil. Where the ground was\\npoor, he strewed maize; where it was most\\nfruitful, he planted wheat; and rice in such\\nspots as were marshy. He threw the seeds of\\ngourds and cucumbers at the foot of the rocks,\\nwhich they loved to climb and decorate with\\ntheir luxuriant foliage. In dry spots he culti-\\nvated the sweet potato; the cotton-tree flour-\\nished upon the heights, and the sugar-cane\\ngrew in the clayey soil. He reared some\\nplants of coffee on the hills, where the grain,\\nalthough small, is excellent. His plantain-\\ntrees, which spread their grateful shade on the\\nbanks of the river, and encircled the cottages,\\nyielded fruit throughout the year. And, lastly,\\nDomingo, to soothe his cares, cultivated a few\\nplants of tobacco. Sometimes he was employed\\nin cutting wood for firing from the mountain,\\nsometimes in hewing pieces of rock within the\\ninclosure, in order to level the paths. The zeal\\nwhich inspired him enabled him to perform all\\nthese labors with intelligence and activity.\\nHe was much attached to Margaret, and not\\nless to Madame de la Tour, whose negro", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0054.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 45\\nwoman, Mary, he had married on the birth of\\nVirginia and he was passionately fond of his\\nw T ife. Mary was born at Madagascar, and had\\nthere acquired the knowledge of some useful\\narts. She could weave baskets, and a sort of\\nstuff, with long grass that grows in the woods.\\nShe was active, cleanly, and, above all, faith-\\nful. It was her care to prepare their meals, to\\nrear the poultry, and go sometimes to Port\\nLouis, to sell the superfluous produce of these\\nlittle plantations, which was not, however, very\\nconsiderable. If you add to the personages\\nalready mentioned two goats, which were\\nbrought up with the children, and a great dog,\\nwhich kept watch at night, you will have a\\ncomplete idea of the household, as well as of\\nthe productions of these two little farms.\\nMadame de la Tour and her friend were con-\\nstantly employed in spinning cotton for the use\\nof their families. Destitute of everything\\nwhich their own industry could not supply, at\\nhome they went barefooted shoes were a con-\\nvenience reserved for Sunday, on which day, at\\nan early hour, they attended mass at the church\\nof the Shaddock Grove, which you see yonder.\\nThat church was more distant from their homes\\nthan Port Louis; but they seldom visited the\\ntown, lest they should be treated with con-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0055.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "46 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\ntempt on account of their dress, which con-\\nsisted simply of the coarse blue linen of Ben-\\ngal, usually worn by slaves. But is there, in\\nthat external deference which fortune com-\\nmands, a compensation for domestic happi-\\nness? If these interesting women had some-\\nthing to suffer from the world, their homes on\\nthat very account became more dear to them.\\nNo sooner did Mary and Domingo, from this\\nelevated spot, perceive their mistresses on the\\nroad of the Shaddock Grove, than they flew to\\nthe foot of the mountain in order to help them\\nto ascend. They discerned in the looks of their\\ndomestics the joy which their return excited.\\nThey found in their retreat neatness, independ-\\nence, all the blessings which are the recom-\\npense of toil, and they received the zealous\\nservices which spring from affection. United\\nby the tie of similar wants, and the sympathy\\nof similar misfortunes, they gave each other the\\ntender names of companion, friend, sister.\\nThey had but one will, one interest, one table.\\nAll their possessions were in common. And if\\nsometimes a passion more ardent than friend-\\nship awakened in their hearts the pang of una-\\nvailing anguish, a pure religion, united with\\nchaste manners, drew their affections towards\\nanothei life as the trembling flame rises to-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0056.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 47\\nwards heaven, when it no longer finds any ali-\\nment on earth.\\nThe duties of maternity became a source of\\nadditional happiness to these affectionate\\nmothers, whose mutual friendship gained new\\nstrength at the sight of their children, equally\\nthe offspring of an ill-fated attachment. They\\ndelighted in washing their infants together in\\nthe same bath, in putting them to rest in the\\nsame cradle, and in changing the maternal\\nbosom at which they received nourishment.\\n44 My friend, cried Madame de la Tour, we\\nshall each of us have two children, and each of\\nour children will have two mothers/ As two\\nbuds which remain on different trees of the\\nsame kind, after the tempest has broken all\\ntheir branches, produce more delicious fruit, if\\neach, separated from the maternal stem, be\\ngrafted on the neighboring tree, so these two\\ninfants, deprived of all their other relations,\\nwhen thus exchanged for nourishmnt by those\\nwho had given them birth, imbibed feelings of\\naffection still more tender than those of son\\nand daughter, brother and sister. While they\\nwere yet in their cradles, their mothers talked\\nof their marriage. They soothed their own\\ncares by looking forward to the future happi-\\nness of their children; but this contemplation", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0057.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "48 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\noften drew forth their tears. The misfortunes\\nof one mother had arisen from having neg-\\nlected marriage those of the other for having\\nsubmitted to its laws. One had suffered by-\\naiming to rise above her condition, the other\\nby descending from her rank. But they found\\nconsolation in reflecting that their more fortu-\\nnate children, far from the cruel prejudices of\\nEurope, would enjoy at once the pleasures of\\nlove and the blessings of equality.\\nRarely, indeed, has such an attachment been\\nseen as that which the two children already\\ntestified for each other. If Paul complained of\\nanything, his mother pointed to Virginia; at\\nher sight he smiled, and was appeased. If any\\naccident befell Virginia, the cries of Paul gave\\nnotice of the disaster but the dear little crea-\\nture would suppress her complaints if she foun\\nthat he was unhappy. When I came hither,\\nusually found them quite naked, as is the cus\\ntorn of the country, tottering in their walks, an\\nholding each other by the hands and under the\\narms, as we see represented the constellatio\\nof the Twins. At night these infants often re\\nfused to be separated, and were found lying in\\nthe same cradle, their cheeks, their bosoms\\npressed close together, their hands thrown", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0058.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "Under an umbrella of their own invention. Page 50.\\nPaul and Virginia.", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0059.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0060.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 49\\nround each other s neck, and sleeping, locked\\nin one another s arms.\\nWhen they began to speak, the first name\\nthey learned to give each other were those of\\nbrother and sister, and childhood knows no\\nsofter appellation. Their education, by direct-\\ning them ever to consider each other s wants,\\ntended greatly to increase their affection. In\\na short time, all the household economy, the\\ncare of preparing their rural repasts, became\\nthe task of Virginia, whose labors were always\\ncrowned with the praises and kisses of her\\nbrother. As for Paul, always in motion, he\\ndug the garden with Domingo, or followed him\\nwith a little hatchet into the woods; and if in\\nhis rambles he espied a beautiful flower, any\\ndelicious fruit, or a nest of birds, even at the\\ntop of the tree, he would climb up and bring\\nthe spoil to his sister. When you met one of\\nthese children, you might be sure the other was\\nnot far off.\\nOne day as I was coming down that mount-\\nain, I saw Virginia at the end of the garden\\nrunning towards the house with her petticoat\\nthrown over her head, in order to screen her-\\nself from a shower of rain. At a distance, I\\nthought she was alone; but as I hastened to-\\nwards her in order to help her on, I perceived\\n4 Paul and Virginia", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0061.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "50 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nshe held Paul by the arm, almost entirely en-\\nveloped in the same canopy, and both were\\nlaughing heartily at their being sheltered to-\\ngether under an umbrella of their own inven-\\ntion. Those two charming faces in the middle\\nof a swelling petticoat, recalled to my mind\\nthe children of Leda, inclosed in the same\\nshell. Their sole study was how they could\\nplease and assist one another; for of all other\\nthings they were ignorant, and, indeed, could\\nneither read nor write. They were never dis-\\nturbed by inquiries about past times, nor did\\ntheir curiosity extend beyond the bounds of\\ntheir mountain. They believed the world\\nended at the shores of their own island, and all\\ntheir ideas and all their affections were confined\\nwithin its limits. Their mutual tenderness,\\nand that of their mothers, employed all the\\nenergies of their minds. Their tears had never\\nbeen called forth by tedious application to use-\\nless sciences. Their minds had never been\\nwearied by lessons of morality, superfluous to\\nbosoms unconscious of ill. They had never\\nbeen taught not to steal, because everything\\nwith them was in common or not to be intem-\\nperate, because their simple food was left to\\ntheir own discretion; or not to lie, because\\nthey had nothing to conceal. Their young", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0062.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 51\\nimaginations had never been terrified by the\\nidea that God has punishment in store for un-\\ngrateful children, since with them, filial affec-\\ntion arose naturally from maternal tenderness.\\nAll they had been taught of religion was to\\nlove it, and if they did not offer up long prayers\\nin the church, wherever they were, in the\\nhouse, in the fields, in the woods, they raised\\ntowards heaven their innocent hands, and\\nhearts purified by virtuous affections.\\nAll their early childhood passed thus, like a\\nbeautiful dawn, the prelude of a bright day.\\nAlready they assisted their mothers in the\\nduties of the household. As soon as the crow-\\ning of the wakeful cock announced the first\\nbeam of the morning, Virginia arose, and has-\\ntened to draw water from a neighboring spring\\nthen returning to the house, she prepared the\\nbreakfast. When the rising sun gilded the\\npoints of the rocks which overhang the inclos-\\nure in which they lived, Margaret and her child\\nrepaired to the dwelling of Madame de la Tour,\\nwhere they offered up their morning prayer\\ntogether. This sacrifice of thanksgiving\\nalways preceded their first repast, which they\\noften took before the door of the cottage,\\nseated upon the grass, under a canopy of plan-\\ntain and while the branches of that delicious", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0063.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "52 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\ntree afforded a grateful shade, its fruit fur-\\nnished a substantial food ready prepared for\\nthem by nature, and its long glossy leaves,\\nspread upon the table, supplied the place of\\nlinen. Plentiful and wholesome nourishment\\ngave early growth and vigor to the persons of\\nthese children, and their countenances ex-\\npressed the purity and peace of their souls. At\\ntwelve years of age the figure of Virginia was\\nin some degree formed a profusion of light\\nhair shaded her face, to which her blue eyes\\nand coral lips gave the most charming brilli-\\nancy. Her eyes sparkled with vivacity when\\nshe spoke but when she was silent they were\\nhabitually turned upwards with an expression\\nof extreme sensibility, or rather of tender mel-\\nancholy. The figure of Paul began already to\\ndisplay the graces of youthful beauty. He was\\ntaller than Virginia his skin was a darker tint\\nhis nose more aquiline, and his black eyes\\nwould have been too piercing, if the long eye-\\nlashes by which they were shaded had not im-\\nparted to them an expression of softness.\\nHe was constantly in motion, except when his\\nsister appeared, and then, seated by her side,\\nhe became still. Their meals often passed with-\\nout a word being spoken, and from their\\nsilence, the simple elegance of their attitudes", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0064.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 53\\nand the beauty of their naked feet, you might\\nhave fancied you beheld an antique group of\\nwhite marble, representing some of the chil-\\ndren of Niobe, but for the glances of their eyes,\\nwhich were constantly seeking to meet, and\\ntheir mutual soft and tender smiles, which sug-\\ngested rather the idea of happy celestial spirits,\\nwhose nature is love, and who are not obliged\\nto have recourse to w T ords for the expression of\\ntheir feelings.\\nIn the meantime, Madame de la Tour, per-\\nceiving every day some unfolding grace, some\\nnew beauty, in her daughter, felt her maternal\\nanxiety increase with her tenderness. She\\noften said to me, 4 If I were to die, what will\\nbecome of Virginia without fortune?\\nMadame de la Tour had an aunt in France,\\nwho was a woman of quality, rich, old, and a\\ncomplete devotee. She had behaved with so\\nmuch cruelty towards her niece upon her mar-\\nriage, that Madame de la Tour had determined\\n.no extremity of distress should ever compel\\nher to have recourse to her hard-hearted rela-\\ntion. But when she became a mother, the\\npride of resentment was overcome by the\\nstronger feelings of maternal tenderness. She\\nwrote to her aunt, informing her of the sudden\\ndeath of her husband, and the birth of her", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0065.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "54 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\ndaughter, and the difficulties in which she was\\ninvolved, burdened as she was with an infant,\\nand without means of support. She received\\nno answer; but notwithstanding the high spirit\\nnatural to her character, she no longer feared\\nexposing herself to mortification and, although\\nshe knew her aunt would never pardon her for\\nhaving married a man who was not of noble\\nbirth, however estimable, she continued to\\nwrite to her, with the hope of awakening her\\ncompassion for Virginia. Many years, how-\\never, passed without receiving any token of her\\nremembrance.\\nAt length, in 1738, three years after the ar-\\nrival of Monsieur de la Bourdonnais in this\\nisland, Madame de la Tour was informed that\\nthe Governor had a letter to give her from her\\naunt. She flew to Port Louis, maternal joy\\nraised her mind above all trifling considera-\\ntions, and she was careless on this occasion of\\nappearing in her homely attire. Monsieur de\\nla Bourdonnais gave her a letter from her aunt,\\nIn which she informed her, that she deserved\\nher fate for marrying an adventurer and a lib-\\nertine; that the passions brought with them\\ntheir own punishment; that the premature\\ndeath of her husband was a just visitation from\\nHeaven, that she had done well in going to a", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0066.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 55\\ndistant island, rather than dishonor her family\\nby remaining in France and that, after all, in\\nthe colony where she had taken refuge, none\\nbut the idle failed to grow rich. Having thus\\ncensured her niece, she concluded by eulogiz-\\ning herself. To avoid, she said, the almost\\ninevitable evils of marriage, she had deter-\\nmined to remain single. In fact, as she was\\nof a very ambitious disposition, she had re-\\nsolved to marry none but a man of high rank,\\nbut although she was very rich, her fortune\\nwas not found a sufficient bribe, even at court,\\nto counterbalance the malignant dispositions of\\nher mind, and the disagreeable qualities of her\\nnature.\\nAfter mature deliberations, she added, in a\\npostscript, that she had strongly iecommended\\nher niece to Monsieur de la Bourdonnais. This\\nshe had, indeed, done, but in a manner of late\\ntoo common, which renders a patron perhaps\\neven more to be feared than a declared enemy,\\nfor, in order to justify herself for her harsh-\\nness, she had cruelly slandered her niece,\\nwhile she affected to pity her misfortunes.\\nMadame de la Tour, whom no unprejudiced\\nperson could have seen without feelings of\\nsympathy and respect, was received with the\\nutmost coolness by Monsieur de la Bourdon-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0067.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "56 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nnais, biased as he was against her. When she\\npainted to him her own situation and that of her\\nchild, he replied in abrupt sentences, kt We\\nwill see what can be done there are so many\\nto relieve all in good time why did you dis-\\nplease your aunt? you have been much to\\nblame.\\nMadame de la Tour returned to her cottage,\\nher heart torn with grief, and filled with all\\nthe bitterness of disappointment. When she\\narrived she threw her aunt s letter on the\\ntable, and exclaimed to her friend, M There is\\nthe fruit of eleven years of patient expecta-\\ntion! Madame de la Tour being the only per-\\nson in the little circle who could read, she again\\ntook up the letter, and read it aloud. Scarcely\\nhad she finished, when Margaret exclaimed,\\nWhat have we to do with your relations? Has\\nGod then forsaken us? He only is our Father 1\\nHave we not hitherto been happy? Why then\\nthis regret? You have no courage. Seeing\\nMadame de la Tour in tears, she threw herself\\nupon her neck, and pressing her in her arms,\\nMy dear friend? cried she, 4 my dear\\nfriend! but her emotion choked her utter-\\nance. At this sight Virginia burst into tears,\\nand pressed her mother s and Margaret s hand\\nalternately to her lips and heart; while Paul,", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0068.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 57\\nhis eyes inflamed with anger, cried, clasping\\nhis hands together, and stamping with his foot t\\nnot knowing whom to blame for this scene of\\nmisery. The noise soon brought Domingo and\\nMary to the spot, and the little habitation re-\\nsounded with cries cf distress, Ah, madam!\\nMy good mistress! My dear mother! Do\\nnot weep! These tender proofs of affection\\nat length dispelled the grief of Madame de la\\nTour. She took Paul and Virginia in her arms*\\nand, embracing them, said, You are the cause\\nof my affliction, my children, but you are also\\nmy only source of delight! Yes, my dear chil-\\ndren, misfortune has reached me, but only\\nfrom a distance; here I am surrounded with\\nhappiness. Paul and Virginia did not under-\\nstand this reflection but when they saw that\\nshe was calm, they smiled, and continued to\\ncaress her. Tranquillity was thus restored in\\nthis happy famliy, and all that had passed was\\nbut as a storm in the midst of fine weather,\\nwhich disturbs the serenity of the atmosphere\\nbut for a short time, and then passes away.\\nThe amiable disposition of these children\\nunfolded itself daily. One Sunday, at day-\\nbreak, their mothers having gone to mass at\\nthe church of the Shaddock Grove, the children\\nperceived a negro woman beneath the plan-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0069.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "58 PAUL AND VIRGINIA,\\ntains which surrounded their habitation, She\\nappeared almost wasted to a skeleton, and had\\nno other garment than a piece of coarse cloth\\nthrown around her. She threw herself at the\\nfeet of Virginia, who was preparing the family\\nbreakfast, and said, My good young lady,\\nhave pity on a poor runaway slave. For a\\nwhole month I have wandered among these\\nmountains, half-dead with hunger, and often\\npursued by the hunters and their dogs. I fled\\nfrom my master, a rich planter of the Black\\nRiver, who has used me as you see; and she\\nshowed her body marked with scars from the\\nlashes she had received. She added, I was\\ngoing to drown myself, but hearing you lived\\nhere, I said to myself, Since there are still\\nsome good white people in this country, I need\\nnot die yet. Virginia answered with emo-\\ntion, Take courage, unfortunate creature!\\nhere is something to eat; and she gave her\\nthe breakfast she had been preparing, which\\nthe slave in few minutes devoured. When her\\nhunger was appeased, Virginia said to her,\\nPoor woman! I should like to go and ask for-\\ngiveness for you of your master. Surely, the\\nsight of you will touch him with pity, Will\\nyou show me the way? Angel of heaven!\\nanswered the poor negro woman, I will follow", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0070.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 59\\nyou where you please M Virginia called her\\nbrother and begged him to accompany her.\\nThe slave led the way, by winding and difficult\\npaths, through the woods, over mountains,\\nwhich they climbed with difficulty, and across\\nrivers, through which they were obliged to\\nwade. At length, about the middle of the day,\\nthey reached the foot of a steep descent upon\\nthe borders of the Black River. There they\\nperceived a well-built house, surrounded by\\nextensive plantations, and a number of slaves\\nemployed in their various labors. Their mas-\\nter was walking among them with a pipe in his\\nmouth, and a switch in his hand. He was a\\ntall, thin man, of a brown complexion; his\\neyes were sunk in his head, and his dark eye-\\nbrows were joined in one. Virginia, holding\\nPaul by the hand, drew near, and with much\\nemotion begged him, for the love of God, to\\npardon his poor slave, who stood trembling a\\nfew paces behind. The planter at first paid\\nlittle attention to the children, who he saw,\\nwere meanly dressed. But when he observed\\nthe elegance of Virginia s form, and the pro-\\nfusion of her beautiful light tresses which had\\nescaped from beneath her blue cap when he\\nheard the soft tone of her voice, which trem-\\nbled, as well as her whole frame, while she im-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0071.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "60 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nplored his compassion; he took his pipe from\\nhis mouth, and lifting up his stick, swore with\\na terrible oath, that he pardoned his slave, not\\nfor the love of Heaven, but of her who asked\\nher forgiveness. Virginia made a sign to the\\nslave to approach her master and instantly\\nsprang away followed by Paul.\\nThey climbed up the steep they had des-\\ncended; and having gained the summit, seated\\nthemselves at the foot of a tree, overcome with\\nfatigue, hunger and thirst. They had left\\ntheir home fasting, and walked five leagues\\nsince sunrise. Paul said to Virginia, My\\ndear sister, it is past noon, and I am sure you\\nare thirsty and hungry we shall find no dinner\\nhere; let us go down the mountain again, and\\nask the master of the poor slave for some\\nfood. Oh, no, answered Virginia, he\\nfrightens me too much. Remember what\\nmamma sometimes says, The bread of the\\nwicked is like stones in the mouth. What\\nshall we do then? said Paul; these trees pro-\\nduce no fruit fit to eat and I shall not be able\\nto find even a tamarind or a lemon to refresh\\nyou, God will take care of us, replied\\nVirginia; he listens to the cry even of the\\nlittle birds when they ask him for food.\\nScarcely had she pronounced these words when", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0072.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 61\\nthey heard the noise of water falling from a\\nneighboring rock. They ran thither, and hav-\\ning quenched their thirst at this crystal spring,\\nthey gathered and ate a few cresses which grew\\non the border of the stream. Soon afterward,\\nwhile they were wandering backwards and for-\\nwards, in search of more solid nourishment,\\nVirginia perceived in the thickest part of the\\nforest, a young palm-tree. The kind of cab-\\nbage which is found at the top of the palm,\\nenfolded within its leaves, is well adapted for\\nfood but, although the stock of the tree is not\\nthicker than a man s leg, it grows to above\\nsixty feet in height. The wood of the tree,\\nindeed, is composed only of very fine filaments;\\nbut the bark is so hard that it turns the edge\\nof the hatchet, and Paul was not furnished\\neven with a knife. At length he thought of\\nsetting fire to the palm-tree but a new diffi-\\nculty occurred: he had no steel with which to\\nstrike fire; and although the whole island is\\ncovered with rocks, I do not believe it is pos-\\nsible to find a single flint. Necessity, how-\\never, is fertile in expedients, and the most\\nuseful inventions have arisen from men placed\\nin the most destitute situations. Paul deter-\\nmined to kindle a fire after the manner of the\\nnegroes. With the sharp end of a stone he", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0073.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "62 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nmade a small hole in the branch of a tree that\\nwas quite dry, and which he held between his\\nfeet: he then, with the edge of the same stone,\\nbrought to a point another dry branch of a\\ndifferent sort of wood, and, afterwards, placing\\nthe piece of pointed wood in the small hole of\\nthe branch which he held with his feet and\\nturning it rapidly between his hands, in a few\\nminutes smoke and sparks of fire issued from\\nthe point of contact. Paul then heaped\\ntogether dried gress and branches, and set fire\\nto the foot of the palm-tree, which soon fell to\\nthe ground with a tremendous crash. The fire\\nwas further useful to him in stripping off the\\nlong, thick, and pointed leaves, within which\\nthe cabbage was inclosed. Having thus suc-\\nceeded in obtaining this fruit, they ate part of\\nit raw, and part dressed upon the ashes, which\\nthey found equally palatable. They made this\\nfrugal repast with delight, from the remem-\\nbrance of the benevolent action they had per-\\nformed in the morning: yet their joy was\\nembittered by the thoughts of the uneasiness\\nwhich their long absence from home would\\noccasion their mothers. Virginia often\\nrecurred to this subject; but Paul, who felt\\nhis strength renewed by their meal, assured\\nher that it would not be long before they", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0074.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 63\\nreached home, and, by the assurance of their\\nsafety, tranquilized the minds of their parents.\\nAfter dinner they were much embarrassed\\nby the recollection that they had now no guide,\\nand that they were ignorant of the way. Paul,\\nwhose spirit was not subdued by difficulties,\\nsaid to Virginia, The sun shines full upon\\nour huts at noon we must pass, as we did this\\nmorning, over that mountain with its three\\npoints, which you see yonder. Come, let us be\\nmoving. This mountain was that of the\\nThree Breasts, so called from the form of its\\nthree peaks. They then descended the steep\\nbank of the Black River, on the northern side;\\nand arrived, after an hour s walk, on the banks\\nof a large river, which stopped their further pro-\\ngress. This large portion of the island, covered\\nas it is with forests, is even now so little known\\nthat many of its rivers and mountains have not\\nyet received a name. The stream, on the\\nbanks of which Paul and Virginia were now\\nstanding, rolls foaming over a bed of rocks.\\nThe noise of the water frightened Virginia,\\nand she was afraid to wade through the cur-\\nrent Paul therefore took her up in his arms,\\nand went thus loaded over the slippery rocks,\\nwhich formed the bed of the river, careless of\\nthe tumultuous noise of its waters. Do not", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0075.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "64 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nbe afraid, cried he to Virginia; I feel very-\\nstrong with yon. If that planter at the Black\\nRiver had refused you the pardon of his slave,\\nI would have fought with him. What?\\nanswered Virginia, with that great wicked\\nman? To what have I exposed you Gracious\\nheaven! how difficult it is to do good! and yet\\nit is so easy to do wrong.\\nWhen Paul had crossed the river, he wished\\nto continue the journey carrying his sister:\\nand he flattered himself that he could ascend\\nin that way the mountain of the Three Breasts,\\nwhich was still at the distance of half a league\\nbut his strength soon failed, and he was obliged\\nto set down his burden, and to rest himself by\\nher side. Virginia then said to him, My dear\\nbrother, the sun is going down; you have still\\nsome strength left, but mine has quite failed:\\ndo leave me here, and return home alone to\\nease the fears of our mothers. 4 1 Oh no, said\\nPaul, I will not leave you; if night overtakes\\nus in this wood I will light a fire, and bring\\ndown another palm-tree; you shall eat the\\ncabbage, and I will form a covering of the\\nleaves to shelter you. In the meantime, Vir-\\nginia being a little rested, she gathered from\\nthe trunk of an old tree, which overhung the\\nbank of the river, some long leaves of the", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0076.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 65\\nplant called hart s tongue, which grew near its\\nroot. Of these leaves she made a sort of\\nbuskin, with which she covered her feet, that\\nwere bleeding from the sharpness of the stony-\\npaths; for in her eager desire to do good, she\\nhad forgotten to put on her shoes. Feeling\\nher feet cooled by the freshness of the leaves,\\nshe broke off a branch of bamboo, and contin-\\nued her walk, leaning with one hand on the\\nstaff, and with the other on Paul.\\nThey walked on in this manner slowly\\nthrough the woods; but from the height of the\\ntrees, and the thickness of their foliage, they\\nsoon lost sight of the mountain of the Three\\nBreasts, by which they had hitherto directed\\ntheir course, and also of the sun, which was now\\nsetting. At length they wandered, without\\nperceiving it, from the beaten path in which\\nthey had hitherto walked, and found themselves\\nin a labyrinth of trees, underwood, and rocks,\\nwhence there appeared to be no outlet, Paul\\nmade Virginia sit down, while he ran back-\\nwards and forwards, half frantic, in search of\\na path which might lead them out of this thick\\nwood; but he fatigued himself to no purpose.\\nHe then climbed to the top of a lofty tree,\\nwhence he hoped at least to perceive the\\nmountain of the Three Breasts: but he could\\n5 Paul and Virginia", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0077.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "66 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\ndiscern nothing around him but the tops of\\ntrees, some of which were gilded with the\\nlast beams of the setting sun. Already the\\nshadows of the mountains were spreading over\\nthe forests in the valleys. The wind lulled,\\nas is usually the case at sunset. The most\\nprofound silence reigned in those awful soli-\\ntudes, which was only interrupted by the cry\\nof the deer, who came to their lairs in that\\nunfrequented spot. Paul, in the hope that\\nsome hunter would hear his voice, called out\\nas loud as he was able, Come, come, to the\\nhelp of Virginia. But the echoes of the\\nforest alone answered his call, and repeated\\nagain and again, Virginia Virginia.\\nPaul at length descended from the tree, over-\\ncome with fatigue and vexation. He looked\\naround in order to make some arrangement for\\npassing the night in that desert but he could\\nfind neither fountain, nor palm-tree, nor even\\na branch of dry wood fit for kindling a fire.\\nHe was then impressed, by experience, with\\nthe sense of his own weakness, and began to\\nweep. Virginia said to him, Do not weep,\\nmy dear brother, or I shall be overwhelmed\\nwith grief. I am the cause of all your sorrow,\\nand of all that our mothers are suffering at this\\nmoment. I find we ought to do nothing, not", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0078.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 67\\neven good, without consulting our parents.\\nOh, I have been very imprudent! and she\\nbegan to shed tears. Let us pray to God,\\nmy dear brother, she again said, and he will\\nhear us. They had scarcely finished their\\nprayer, when they heard the barking of a dog.\\nIt must be the dog of some hunter, said\\nPaul, who comes here at night, to lie in wait\\nfor the deer. Soon after, the dog began bark-\\ning again with increased violence. Surely,\\nsaid Virginia, it is Fidele, our own dog: yes,\\nnow I know his bark. Are we then so near\\nhome? at the foot of our own mountain? A\\nmoment after Fidele was at their feet, barking,\\nhowling, moaning, and devouring them with\\ncaresses. Before they could recover from their\\nsurprise, they saw Domingo running towards\\nthem. At the sight of the good old negro,\\nwho wept for joy, they began to weep too, but\\nhad not the power to utter a syllable. When\\nDomingo had recovered himself a little, Oh,\\nmy dear children, said he, how miserable\\nhave you made your mothers How astonished\\nthey were when they returned with me from\\nmass, on not finding you at home. Mary, who\\nwas at work at a little distance, could not tell us\\nwhere you were gone. I ran backwards and\\nforwards in the plantation, not knowing where", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0079.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "68 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nto look for you. At last I took some of your\\nold clothes, and showing them to Fidele, the\\npoor animal, as if he understood me, immedi-\\nately began to scent your path and conducted\\nme, wagging his tail all the while, to the Black\\nRiver. I there saw a planter, who told me\\nyou had brought back a Maroon negro woman,\\nhis slave, and that he had pardoned her at your\\nrequest. But what a pardon he showed her\\nto me with her feet chained to a block of wood,\\nand an iron collar with three hooks fastened\\nround her neck After that, Fidele, still on\\nthe scent, led me up the steep bank of the\\nBlack River, where he again stopped, and\\nbarked with all his might. This was on the\\nbrink of a spring, near which was a fallen\\npalm-tree, and a fire, still smoking. At last\\nhe led me to this very spot. We are now at\\nthe foot of the mountain of the Three Breasts,\\nand still four good leagues from home. Come\\neat, and recover your strength. Domingo\\nthen presented them with a cake, some fruit,\\nand a large gourd full of beverage composed of\\nwine, water, lemon-juice, sugar, and nutmeg,\\nwhich their mothers had prepared to invigorate\\nand refresh them. Virginia sighed at the\\nrecollection of the poor slave, and at the\\nuneasiness they had given their mothers. She", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0080.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 69\\nrepeated several times. Oh, how difficult it\\nis to do good! While she and Paul were tak-\\ning refreshment, it being already night, Do-\\nmingo kindled a fire: and having found among\\nthe rocks a particular kind of twisted wood,\\ncalled bois de ronde, which burns when quite\\ngreen, and throws out a great blaze, he made\\na torch of it, which he lighted. But when\\nthey prepared to continue their journey, a new\\ndifficulty occurred Paul and Virginia could no\\nlonger walk, their feet being violently swollen\\nand inflamed. Domingo knew not what to do\\nwhether to leave them and go in search of help,\\nor remain and pass the night with them on that\\nspot. There was a time, said he, when I\\ncould carry you both together in my arms!\\nBut now you are grown big, and I am grown\\nold. While he was in this perplexity, a troop\\nof Maroon negroes appeared at a short distance\\nfrom them. The chief of the band, approach-\\ning Paul and Virginia, said to them, Good\\nlittle white people, do not be afraid. We saw\\nyou pass this morning, with a negro woman of\\nthe Black River. You went to ask pardon for\\nher of her wicked master; and we, in return\\nfor this, will carry you home upon our shoul-\\nders. He then made a sign, and four of the\\nstrongest negroes immediately formed a sort of", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0081.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "70 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nlitter with the branches of trees and lianas,\\nand having seated Paul and Virginia on it,\\ncarried them upon their shoulders. Domingo\\nmarched in front with his lighted torch, and\\nthey proceeded amidst the rejoicings of the\\nwhole troop, who overwhelmed them with their\\nbenedictions. Virginia, affected by this scene,\\nsaid to Paul, with emotion, Oh, my dear\\nbrother God never leaves a good action unre-\\nwarded.\\nIt was midnight when they arrived at the foot\\nof their mountain, on the ridges of which sev-\\neral fires were lighted. As soon as they began\\nto ascend, they heard voices exclaiming Is it\\nyou, my children? They answered immedi-\\nately, and the negroes also, Yes, yes, it is/\\nA moment after they could distinguish their\\nmothers and Mary coming towards them with\\nlighted sticks in their hands. Unhappy chil-\\ndren/ cried Madame de la Tour, where have\\nyou been? what agonies you have made us\\nsuffer! We have been, said Virginia, to\\nthe Black River, where we went to ask pardon\\nfor a poor Maroon slave, to whom I gave our\\nbreakfast this morning, because she seemed\\ndying of hunger; and these Maroon negroes\\nhave brought us home. Madame de la Tour\\nembraced her daughter, without being able to", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0082.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 71\\nspeak; and Virginia, who felt her face wet\\nwith her mother s tears, exclaimed, Now I\\nam repaid for all the hardships I have suffered.\\nMargaret, in a transport of delight, pressed\\nPaul in her arms, exclaiming, And you also,\\nmy dear child, you have done a good action.\\nWhen they reached the cottages with their\\nchildren they entertained all the negroes with\\na plentiful repast, after which the latter re-\\nturned to the woods praying Heaven to shower\\ndown every description of blessing on those\\ngood white people.\\nEvery day was to these families a day of hap-\\npiness and tranquillity. Neither ambition nor\\nenvy disturbed their repose. They did not\\nseek to obtain a useless reputation out of doors,\\nwhich may be procured by artifice and lost by\\ncalumny; but were contented to be the sole\\nwitnesses and judges of their own actions. In\\nthis island, where, as is the case in most colo-\\nnies, scandal forms the principal topic of con-\\nversation, their virtues, and even their names,\\nwere unknown. The passer-by on the road to\\nthe Shaddock Grove, indeed, would sometimes\\nask the inhabitants of the plain, who lived in\\nthe cottages up there? and was always told,\\neven by those who did not know them, They\\nare good people. The modest violet thus,", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0083.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "72 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nconcealed in thorny places, sheds all unseen its\\ndelightful fragrance around.\\nSlander, which, under an appearance of jus-\\ntice, naturally inclines the heart to falsehood\\nor to hatred, was entirely banished from their\\nconversation for it is impossible not to hate\\nmen if we believe them to be wicked, or to live\\nwith the wicked without concealing that hatred\\nunder a false pretence of good feeling. Slander\\nthus puts us all ill at ease with others and with\\nourselves. In this little circle, therefore, the\\nconduct of individuals was not discussed, but\\nthe best manner of doing good to all; and\\nalthough they had but little in their power,\\ntheir unceasing good- will and kindness of heart\\nmade them constantly ready to do what they\\ncould for others. Solitude, far from having\\nblunted these benevolent feelings, had ren-\\ndered their dispositions even more kindly.\\nAlthough the petty scandals of the day fur-\\nnished no subject of conversation to them,\\nyet their contemplation of nature filled their\\nminds with enthusiastic delight. They adored\\nthe bounty of that Providence, which, by their\\ninstrumentality, had spread abundance and\\nbeauty about these barren rocks, and had en-\\nabled them to enjoy those pure and simple", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0084.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 73\\npleasures, which are ever grateful and ever\\nnew.\\nPaul, at twelve years of age, was stronger\\nand more intelligent than most European\\nyouths are at fifteen; and the plantations,\\nwhich Domingo merely cultivated, were embell-\\nished by him. Ke would go with the old negro\\ninto the neighboring woods, where he would\\nroot up the young plants of lemon, orange, and\\ntamarind trees, the round heads of which are\\nso fresh and green, together with date-palm\\ntrees, which produce fruit filled with a sweet\\ncream, possessing the fine perfume of the\\norange flower. These trees, which had already\\nattained to a considerable size, he planted\\nround their little enclosure. He had also sown\\nthe seed of many trees which the second year\\nbear flowers or fruit; such as the agathis, en-\\ncircled with long clusters of white flowers\\nwhich hang from it like the crystal pendants\\nof a chandelier; the Persian lilac, which lifts\\nhigh in air its gray flax-colored branches the\\npawpaw tree, the branchless trunk of which\\nforms a column studded with green melons,\\nsurmounted by a capital of broad leaves similar\\nto those of the fig-tree.\\nThe seeds and kernels of the gum tree, ter-\\nminalia, mango, alligator pear, the guava, the", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0085.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "74 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nbread-fruit tree, and the narrow-leaved rose-\\napple, were also planted by him with profu-\\nsion and the greater number of these trees\\nalready afforded the young cultivator both\\nshade and fruit. His industrious hands diffused\\nthe riches of nature over even the most barren\\nparts of the plantation. Several species of\\naloes, the Indian fig, adorned with yellow flow-\\ners spotted with red, and the thorny torch\\nthistle, grew upon the dark summits of the\\nrocks, and seemed to aim at reaching the long\\nlianas, which, laden with blue or scarlet flow-\\ners, hung scattered over the steepest parts of\\nthe mountain.\\nI loved to trace the ingenuity he had exer-\\ncised in the arrangement of these trees. He\\nhad so disposed them that the whole could be\\nseen at a single glance. In the middle of the\\nhollow he had planted shrubs of the lowest\\ngrowth behind grew the more lofty sorts\\nthen trees of the ordinary height and beyond\\nand above all, the venerable and lofty groves\\nwhich bordered the circumference. Thus this\\nextensive inclosure appeared, from its cen-\\nter, like a verdant amphitheater, decorated\\nwith fruits and flowers, containing a variety of\\nvegetables, some strips of meadow land, and\\nfields of rice and corn. But, in arranging", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0086.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 75\\nthese vegetable productions to his own taste,\\nhe wandered not too far from the designs of\\nNature. Guided by her suggestions, he had\\nthrown upon the elevated spots such seeds as\\nthe winds would scatter about, and near the\\nborders of the springs those which float upon\\nthe water. Every plant thus grew in its proper\\nsoil, and every spot seemed decorated by\\nNature s own hand. The streams which fell\\nfrom the summits of the rocks formed in some\\nparts of the valley sparkling cascades, and in\\nothers were spread into broad mirrors, in\\nwhich were reflected, set in verdure, the flower-\\ning trees, the overhanging rocks, and the azure\\nheavens.\\nNotwithstanding the great irregularity of the\\nground, these plantations were, for the most\\npart, easy of access. We had, indeed, all given\\nhim our advice and assistance, in order to ac-\\ncomplish this end. He had conducted one\\npath entirely round the valley and various\\nbranches from it led from the circumference\\nto the center. He had drawn some advantage\\nfrom the most rugged spots, and had blended,\\nin harmonious union, level walks with the in-\\nequalities of the soil, and trees which grow\\nwild with the cultivated varieties. With that\\nimmense quantity of large pebbles which now", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0087.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "76 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nblock up these paths, and which are scattered\\nover most of the ground of this island, he\\nformed pyramidal heaps here and there, at the\\nbase of which he laid mold, and planted rose-\\nbushes, the Barbadoes flower-fence, and other\\nshrubs which love to climb the rocks. In a\\nshort time the dark and shapeless heaps of\\nstones he had constructed were covered with\\nverdure, or with the glowing tints of the most\\nbeautiful flowers. Hollow recesses on the bor-\\nders of the streams shaded by the overhanging\\nboughs of aged trees, formed rural grottoes,\\nimpervious to the rays of the sun, in which\\nyou might enjoy a refreshing coolness during\\nthe mid-day heats. One path led to a clump\\nof forest trees, in the center of which, sheltered\\nfrom the wind, you found a fruit-tree, laden\\nwith produce. Here was a corn-field there,\\nan orchard from one avenue you had a view\\nof the cottages from another, of the inaccess-\\nible summit of the mountain. Beneath one\\ntufted bower of gum-trees, interwoven with\\nlianas, no object whatever could be perceived:\\nwhile the point of the adjoining rock, jutting\\nout from the mountain, commanded a view of\\nthe whole inclosure, and of the distant ocean,\\nwhere, occasionally, we could discern the dis-\\ntant sail, arriving from Europe, or bound", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0088.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 77\\nthither. On this rock the two families fre-\\nquently met in the evening, and enjoyed in\\nsilence the freshness of the flowers, the gentle\\nmurmurs of the fountain, and the last blended\\nharmonies of light and shade.\\nNothing could be more charming than the\\nnames which were bestowed upon some of the\\ndelightful retreats of the labyrinth. The rock\\nof which I have been speaking, whence they\\ncould discern my approach at a considerable\\ndistance, was called the Discovery of Friend-\\nship. Paul and Virginia had amused them-\\nselves by planting a bamboo on that spot and\\nwhenever they saw me coming, they hoisted a\\nlittle white handkerchief, by way of signal at\\nmy approach, as they had seen a flag hoisted\\non the neighboring mountain on the sight of a\\nvessel at sea. The idea struck me of engrav-\\ning an inscription on the stalk of this reed for\\nI never, in the course of my travels, experi-\\nenced anything like the pleasure in seeing a\\nstatue or other monument of ancient art, as in\\nreading a well-written inscription. It seems\\nto me as if a human voice issued from the\\nstone, and, making itself heard after the lapse\\nof ages, addressed man in the midst of a desert,\\nto tell him that he is not alone, and that other\\nmen, on that very spot, had felt, and thought,", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0089.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "78 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nand suffered like himself. If the inscription\\nbelongs to an ancient nation, which no longer\\nexists, it leads the soul through infinite space,\\nand strengthens the consciousness of its immor-\\ntality, by demonstrating that a thought has\\nsurvived the ruins of an empire.\\nI inscribed then, on the little staff of Paul\\nand Virginia s flag the following lines of\\nHorace\\nFratres Helense, lucida sidera,\\nVentorumque re gat pater,\\nObstrictis, aliis, praeter Iapaiga.\\nMay the brothers of Helen, bright stars like you,\\nand the Father of the winds, guide you; and may you\\nfeel only the breath of the zephyr.\\nThere was a gum-tree, under the shadow of\\nwhich Paul was accustomed to sit, to contem-\\nplate the sea when agitated by storms. On\\nthe bark of this tree, I engraved the following\\nlines from Virgil\\nFortunatus et ille deos qui novit agrestes\\nHappy art thou, my son, in knowing only the pas-\\ntoral divinities.\\nAnd over the door of Madame de la Tour s cot-\\ntage, where the families so frequently met, I\\nplaced this line\\nAt secura quies, et nescia fallere vita.\\nHere dwells a calm conscience, and a life that knows\\nnot deceit.", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0090.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 79\\nBut Virginia did not approve of my Latin\\nshe said, that what I had placed at the foot of\\nher flag-staff was too long and too learned.\\nI should have liked better, added she, to\\nhave seen inscribed, Ever agitated, yet con-\\nstant. Such a motto, I answered, would\\nhave been still more applicable to virtue.\\nMy reflection made her blush.\\nThe delicacy of sentiment of these happy\\nfamilies was manifested in everything around\\nthem. They gave the tenderest names to ob-\\njects in appearance the most indifferent. A\\nborder of orange, plantain, and rose-apple\\ntrees, planted round a green sward where Vir-\\nginia and Paul sometimes danced, received the\\nname of Concord. An old tree, beneath the\\nshade of which Madame de la Tour and Mar-\\ngaret used to recount their misfortunes, was\\ncalled the Burial-place of Tears. They be-\\nstowed the names of Brittany and Normandy\\non two little plots of ground, where they had\\nsown corn, strawberries, and peas. Domingo\\nand Mary, wishing, in imitation of their mis-\\ntresses, to recall to mind Angola and Foulle-\\npointe, the places of their birth in Africa, gave\\nthose names to the little fields where the grass\\nwas sown with which they wove their baskets,\\nand where they had planted a calabash -tree.", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0091.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "80 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nThus by cultivating the productions of their\\nrespective climates, these exiled families cher-\\nished the dear illusions which bind us to our\\nnative country, and softened their regrets in a\\nforeign land. Alas! I have seen these trees,\\nthese fountains, these heaps of stones, which\\nare now so completely overthrown, which\\nnow, like the desolated plains of Greece, pre-\\nsent nothing but masses of ruin and affecting\\nremembrances, all but called into life by the\\nmany charming appellations thus bestowed\\nupon them\\nBut perhaps the most delightful spot of this\\nin closure was that called Virginia s resting-\\nplace. At the foot of the rock which bore the\\nname of the Discovery of Friendship, is a small\\ncrevice, whence issues a fountain, forming,\\nnear its source, a little spot of marshy soil in\\nthe middle of a field of rich grass. At the time\\nof Paul s birth I had made Margaret a present\\nof an Indian cocoa which had been given\\nme, and which she planted on the border of\\nthis fenny ground, in order that the tree might\\none day serve to mark the epoch of her son s\\nbirth. Madame de la Tour planted another\\ncocoa with the same view, at the birth of Vir-\\nginia. These nuts produced two cocoa-trees,\\nwhich formed the only records of the two fam-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0092.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 81\\nilies; one was called Paul s tree, the other,\\nVirginia s. Their growth was in the same\\nproportion as that of the two young persons,\\nnot exactly equal but they rose, at the end of\\ntwelve years, above the roofs of the cottages.\\nAlready their tender stalks were interwoven,\\nand clusters of young cocoas hung from them\\nover the basin of the fountain. With the\\nexception of these two trees, this nook of the\\nrock was left as it had been decorated by\\nnature. On its embrowned and moist sides\\nbroad plants of maiden-hair glistened with their\\ngreen and dark stars and tufts of wave-leaved\\nhart s tongue, suspended like long ribbons of\\npurpled green, floated on the wind. Near\\nthis grew a chain of the Madagascar periwinkle,\\nthe flowers of which resemble the red gili-\\nflower; and the long-podded capsicum, the\\nseed-vessels of which are of the color of blood,\\nand more resplendent than coral. Near them,\\nthe herb balm, with its heart-shaped leaves,\\nand the sweet basil, which has the odor of the\\nclove, exhaled the most delicious perfumes.\\nFrom the precipitous side of the mountain\\nhung the graceful lianas, like floating draper-\\nies, forming magnificent canopies of vendure\\non the face of the rocks. The sea-birds, allured\\nby the stillness of these retreats, resorted here\\n6 Paul and Virginia", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0093.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "82 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nto pass the night. At the hour of sunset we\\ncould perceive the curlew and the stint skim-\\nming along the sea-shore; the frigate-bird\\npoised high in air and the white bird of the\\ntropic, which abandons, with the star of day,\\nthe solitudes of the Indian ocean. Virginia\\ntook pleasure in resting herself upon the border\\nof this fountain, decorated with wild and\\nsublime magnificence. She often went thither\\nto wash the linen of the family beneath the\\nshade of the two cocoa-trees, and thither too\\nshe sometimes led her goats to graze. While\\nshe was making cheeses of their milk, she loved\\nto see them browse on the maiden-hair fern\\nwhich clothed the steep sides of the rock, and\\nhung suspended by one of its cornices, as on a\\npedestal. Paul, observing that Virginia was\\nfond of this spot, brought thither, from the\\nneighboring forest, a great variety of birds\\nnests. The old birds following their young,\\nsoon established themselves in this new colony.\\nVirginia, at stated times, distributed amongst\\nthem grains of rice, millet, and maize. As\\nsoon as she appeared, the whistling blackbird,\\nthe amadavid bird, whose note is so soft, the\\ncardinal, with its flame-colored plumage, for-\\nsook their bushes; the paroquet, green as an\\nemerald, descended from the neighboring fan-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0094.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 88\\npalms, the partridge ran along the grass; all\\nadvanced promiscuously towards her, like a\\nbrood of chickens and she and Paul found an\\nexhaustless source of amusement in observing\\ntheir sports, their repasts, and their loves.\\nAmiable children thus passed your earlier\\ndays in innocence, and in obeying the impulses\\nof kindness. How many times, on this very\\nspot, have your mothers, pressing you in their\\narms, blessed Heaven for the consolation your\\nunfolding virtues prepared for their declining\\nyears, while they at the same time enjoyed the\\nsatisfaction of seeing you begin life under the\\nhappiest auspices! How many times, beneath\\nthe shade of those rocks, have I partaken with\\nthem of your rural repasts, which never cost\\nany anmial its life! Gourds full of milk, fresh\\neggs, cakes of rice served up on plantain leaves,\\nwith baskets of mangoes, oranges, dates,\\npomegranates, pine-apples, furnished a whole-\\nsome repast, the most agreeable to the eye, as\\nwell as delicious to the taste, that can possibly\\nbe imagined.\\nLike the repast, the conversation was mild,\\nand free from everything having a tendency to\\ndo harm. Paul often talked of the labors of\\nthe day and of the morrow. He was contin-\\nually planning something for the accommoda-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0095.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "84 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\ntion of their little society. Here he discovered\\nthat the paths were rugged; there, that the\\nseats were uncomfortable, sometimes the\\nyoung arbors did not afford sufficient shade, and\\nVirginia might be better pleased elsewhere.\\nDuring the rainy season the two families met\\ntogether in the cottage, and employed them-\\nselves in weaving mats of grass, and baskets of\\nbamboo. Rakes, spades, and hatchets were\\nranged along the walls in the most perfect\\norder; and near these instruments of agricul-\\nture were heaped its products, bags of rice,\\nsheaves of corn, and baskets of plantains.\\nSome degree of luxury usually accompanies\\nabundance; and Virginia was taught by her\\nmother and Margaret to prepare sherbet and\\ncordials from the juice of the sugar-cane, the\\nlemon and the citron.\\nWhen night came, they all supped together\\nby the light of a lamp after which Madame de\\nla Tour or Margaret related some story of trav-\\nelers benighted in those woods of Europe that\\nare still infested by banditti; or told a dismal\\ntale of some ship-wrecked vessel, thrown by\\nthe tempest upon the rocks of a desert island.\\nTo these recitals the children listened with\\neager attention, and earnestly hoped that\\nHeaven would one day grant them the joy of", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0096.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 85\\nperforming the rites of hospitality towards\\nsuch unfortunate persons When the time for\\nrepose arrived, the two families separated and\\nretired for the night, eager to meet again the\\nfollowing morning. Sometimes they were\\nlulled to repose by the beating of the rains,\\nwhich fell in torrents upon the roofs of their\\ncottages, and sometimes by the hollow winds,\\nwhich brought to their ear the distant roar of\\nthe waves breaking upon the shore. They\\nblessed God for their own safety, the feeling\\nof which was brought home more forcibly to\\ntheir minds by the sound of remote danger.\\nMadame de la Tour occasionally read aloud\\nsome affecting history of the Old or New Testa-\\nment. Her auditors reasoned but little upon\\nthese sacred volumes, for their theology cen-\\ntered in a feeling of devotion towards the\\nSupreme Being, like that of nature and their\\nmorality was an active principle, like that of\\nthe Gospel. These families had no particular\\ndays devoted to pleasure, and others to sadness.\\nEvery day was to them a holiday, and all\\nthat surrounded them one holy temple, in which\\nthey ever adored the Infinite Intelligence, the\\nAlmighty God, the friend of human kind. A\\nfeeling of confidence in his supreme power\\nfilled their minds with consolation for the past,", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0097.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "86 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nwith fortitude under present trials, and with\\nhope in the future. Compelled by misfortune\\nto return almost to a state of nature, these\\nexcellent women had thus developed in their\\nown and their children s bosoms the feelings\\nmost natural to the human mind, and its best\\nsupport under affliction.\\nBut, as clouds sometimes arise, and cast a\\ngloom over the best regulated tempers, so\\nwhenever any member of this little society\\nappeared to be laboring under dejection, the\\nrest assembled around, and endeavored to ban-\\nish her painful thoughts by amusing the mind\\nrather than by grave arguments against them.\\nEach performed this kind office in their own\\nappropriate manner: Margaret, by her gayety\\nMadame de la Tour, by the gentle consolations\\nof religion Virginia, by her tender caresses\\nPaul, by his frank and engaging cordiality.\\nEven Mary and Domingo hastened to offer\\ntheir succor, and to weep with those that wept.\\nThus do weak plants interweave themselves\\nwith each other, in order to withstand the fury\\nof the tempest.\\nDuring the fine season, they went every Sun-\\nday to the church of the Shaddock Grove, the\\nsteeple of which you see yonder upon the plain.\\nMany wealthy members of the congregation,\\nII", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0098.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 87\\nwho came to church in palanquins, sought the\\nacquaintance of these united families, and\\ninvited them to parties of pleasure. But they\\nalways repelled these overtures with respectful\\npoliteness, as they were persuaded that the rich\\nand powerful seek the society of persons in an\\ninferior station only for the sake of surround-\\ning themselves with flatterers, and that every\\nflatterer must applaud alike all the actions of\\nhis patron, whether good or bad. On the other\\nhand, they avoided, with equal care, too inti-\\nmate an acquaintance with the lower class, who\\nare ordinarily jealous, calumniating, and gross.\\nThey thus acquired, with some, the character\\nof being timid, and with others, of pride but\\ntheir reserve was accompanied with so much\\nobliging politeness, above all towards the\\nunfortunate and the unhappy, that they\\ninsensibly acquired the respect of the rich and\\nthe confidence of the poor.\\nAfter service, some kind office was often\\nrequired at their hands by their poor neigh-\\nbors. Sometimes a person troubled in mind\\nsought their advice; sometimes a child begged\\nthem to visit its sick mother, in one of the ad-\\njoining hamlets. They always took with them\\na few remedies for the ordinary diseases of the\\ncountry, which they administered in that sooth-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0099.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "88 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\ning manner which stamps a value upon the\\nsmallest favors. Above all, they met with\\nsingular success in administering to the dis-\\norders of the mind, so intolerable in solitude,\\nand under the infirmities of a weakened frame.\\nMadame de la Tour spoke with such sublime\\nconfidence of the Divinity, that the sick, while\\nlistening to her, almost believed him present.\\nVirginia often returned home with her eyes\\nfull of tears, and her heart overflowing with\\ndelight, at having had an opportunity of doing\\ngood; for to her generally was confided the\\ntask of preparing and administering the medi-\\ncines, a task which she fulfilled with angelic\\nsweetness. After these visits of charity, they\\nsometimes extended their walk by the Sloping\\nMountain, till they reached my dwelling,\\nwhere I used to prepare dinner for them on\\nthe banks of the little rivulet which glides near\\nmy cottage. I procured for these occasions a\\nfew bottles of old wine, in order to heighten\\nthe relish of our Oriental repast by the more\\ngenial productions of Europe. At other times\\nwe met on the seashore at the mouth of some\\nlittle river, or rather mere brook. We brought\\nfrom home the provisions furnished us by our\\ngardens, to which we added those supplied us\\nby the sea in abundant variety. We caught", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0100.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 89\\non these shores the mullet, the roach, and the\\nsea-urchin, lobsters, shrimps, crabs, oysters,\\nand all other kinds of shell-fish. In this way,\\nwe often enjoyed the most tranquil pleasures in\\nsituations the most terrific. Sometimes, seated\\nupon a rock, under the shade of the velvet sun-\\nflower-tree, we saw the enormous waves of the\\nIndian Ocean break beneath our feet with a\\ntremendous noise. Paul, who could swim like\\na fish, would advance on the reefs to meet the\\ncoming billows then, at their near approach,\\nwould run back to the beach, closely pursued\\nby the foaming breakers, which threw them-\\nselves, with a roaring noise, far on the sands.\\nBut Virginia, at this sight, uttered piercing\\ncries, and said that such sports frightened her\\ntoo much.\\nOther amusements were not wanting on\\nthese festive occasions. Our repasts were gen-\\nerally followed by the songs and dances of the\\ntwo young people. Virginia sang the happi-\\nness of pastoral life, and the misery of those\\nwho were impelled by avarice to cross the rag-\\ning ocean, rather than cultivate the earth,\\nand enjoy its bounties in peace. Sometimes\\nshe performed a pantomime with Paul, after\\nthe manner of- the negroes. The first language\\nof man is pantomime: it is known to all na-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0101.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "90 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\ntions, and is so natural and expressive, that\\nthe children of the European inhabitants catch\\nit with facility from the negroes. Virginia,\\nrecalling, from among the histories which her\\nmother had read to her, those which had\\naffected her most, represented the principal\\nevents in them with beautiful simplicity.\\nSometimes at the sound of Domingo s tan tarn\\nshe appeared upon the green sward, bearing a\\npitcher upon her head, and advanced with a\\ntimid step towards the source of a neighbor-\\ning fountain to draw water. Domingo and\\nMary, personating the shepherds of Midian,\\nforbade her to approach, and repulsed her\\nsternly. Upon this Paul flew to her succor,\\nbeat away the shepherds, filled Virginia s\\npitcher, and placing it upon her head, bound\\nher brows at the same time with a wreath of\\nthe red flowers of the Madagascar periwinkle,\\nwhich served to heighten the delicacy of her\\ncomplexion. Then joining in their sports, I\\ntook upon myself the part of Raguel, and be-\\nstowed upon Paul, my daughter Zephora in\\nmarriage.\\nAnother time Virginia would represent the\\nunhappy Ruth, returning poor and widowed\\nwith her mother-in-law, who, after so pro-\\nlonged an absence, found herself as unknown", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0102.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 91\\nas in a foreign land. Domingo and Mary per-\\nsonated the reapers. The supposed daughter\\nof Naomi followed their steps, gleaming here\\nand there a few ears of corn. When inter-\\nrogated by Paul, a part which he performed\\nwith the gravity of a patriarch, she answered\\nhis questions with a faltering voice. He then,\\ntouched with compassion, granted an asylum\\nto innocence, and hospitality to misfortune.\\nHe filled her lap with plenty and, leading her\\ntowards us as before the elders of the city,\\ndeclared his purpose to take her in marriage.\\nAt this scene, Madame de la Tour, recalling\\nthe desolate situation in which she had been\\nleft by her relations, her widowhood, and the\\nkind reception she had met with from Mar-\\ngaret, succeeded now by the soothing hope of\\na happy union between their children, could\\nnot forbear weeping and these mixed recollec-\\ntions of good and evil caused us all to unite\\nwith her in shedding tears of sorrow and of\\njoy.\\nThese dramas were performed with such an\\nair of reality that you might have fancied your-\\nself transported to the plains of Syria or of\\nPalestine. We were not unfurnished with\\ndecorations, lights, or an orchestra, suitable\\nto the representation. The scene was gener-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0103.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "92 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nally placed in an open space of the forest, the\\ndiverging paths from which formed around us\\nnumerous arcades of foliage, under which we\\nwere sheltered from the heat all the middle of\\nthe day; but when the sun descended towards\\nthe horizon, its rays, broken by the trunks of\\nthe trees, darted amongst the shadows of the\\nforest in long lines of light, producing the most\\nmagnificent effect. Sometimes its broad disk\\nappeared at the end of an avenue, lighting it\\nup with insufferable brightness. The foliage\\nof the trees, illuminated from beneath by its\\nsaffron beams, glowed with the luster of the\\ntopaz and the emerald. Their brown and\\nmossy trunks appeared transformed into\\ncolumns of antique bronze; and the birds,\\nwhich had retired in silence to their leafy\\nshades to pass the night, surprised to see the\\nradiance of the second morning, hailed the star\\nof day all together with innumerable carols.\\nNight often overtook us during these rural\\nentertainments but the purity of the air and the\\nwarmth of the climate, admitted of our sleep-\\ning in the woods, without incurring any danger\\nby exposure to the weather, and no less secure\\nfrom the molestation of robbers. On our re-\\nturn the following day to our respective habita-\\ntions, we found them in exactly the same state", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0104.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 93\\nin which they had been left. In this island,\\nthen -unsophisticated by the pursuits of com-\\nmerce, such were the honesty and primitive\\nmanners of the population, that the doors of\\nmany houses were without a key, and even a\\nlock itself was an object of curiosity to not a\\nfew of the native inhabitants.\\nThere were, however, some days in the years\\ncelebrated by Paul and Virginia in a more\\npeculiar manner; these were the birthdays of\\ntheir mothers. Virginia never failed the day\\nbefore to prepare some wheaten cakes, w r hich\\nshe distributed among a few poor white fam-\\nilies, born in the island, who had never eaten\\nEuropean bread. These unfortunate people,\\nuncared for by the blacks, were reduced to live\\non tapioca in the woods; and as they had\\nneither the insensibility which is the result of\\nslavery, nor the fortitude which spring from a\\nliberal education, to enable them to support\\ntheir poverty, their situation was deplorable\\nThese cakes were all that Virginia had it in\\nher power to give away, but she conferred the\\ngift in so delicate a manner as to add tenfold\\nto its value. In the first place, Paul was com-\\nmissioned to take the cakes himself to these\\nfamilies, and get their promise to come and\\nspend the next day at Madame de la Tour s.", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0105.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "94 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nAccordingly, mothers of families, with two or\\nthree thin, yellow, miserable-looking daughters,\\nso timid that they dared not look up, made\\ntheir appearance. Virginia soon put them at\\ntheir ease she waited upon them with refresh-\\nments, the excellence of which she endeavored\\nto heighten by relating some particular circum-\\nstance which, in her own estimation, vastly\\nimproved them. One beverage had been\\nprepared by Margaret; another, by her\\nmother; her brother himself had climed some\\nlofty tree for the very fruit she was presenting.\\nShe would then get Paul to dance with them,\\nnor would she leave them till she saw that they\\nwere happy. She wished them to partake of\\nthe joy of her own family. It is only, she\\nsaid, by promoting the happiness of others,\\nthat we can secure our own. When they\\nleft, she generally presented them with some\\nlittle article they seemed to fancy, enforcing\\ntheir acceptance of it by some delicate pretext,\\nthat she might not appear to know they were\\nin want. If she remarked that their clothes\\nwere much tattered, she obtained her mother s\\npermission to give them some of her own, and\\nthen sent Paul to leave them secretly at their\\ncottage doors. She thus followed the divine", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0106.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 95\\nprecept, concealing the benefactor, and re-\\nvealing only the benefit.\\nYour Europeans, whose minds are imbued\\nfrom infancy with prejudices at variance with\\nhappiness, cannot imagine all the instruction\\nand pleasure to be derived from nature. Your\\nsouls, confined to a small sphere of intelligence,\\nsoon reaches the limit of its artificial enjoy-\\nments but nature and the heart are inexhaust-\\nible. Paul and Virginia had neither clock, nor\\nalmanack, nor books of chronology, history or\\nphilosophy. The periods of their lives were\\nregulated by those of the operations of nature,\\nand their familiar conversation had a reference\\nto the changes of the seasons. They knew the\\ntime of day by the shadows of the trees the\\nseasons, by the times when those trees bore\\nflowers or fruit and the years, by the number\\nof their harvests. These soothing images\\ndiffused an inexpressible charm over their con-\\nversation. It is time to dine, said Virginia,\\nthe shadows of the plantain- trees are at their\\nroots: or, Night approaches, the tamarinds\\nare closing their leaves. When will you\\ncome and see us? inquired some of her com-\\npanions in the neighborhood. At the time\\nof the sugar-canes, answered Virginia.\\nYour visit will be then still more delightful,", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0107.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "96 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nresumed her young acquaintances. When she\\nwas asked what was her own age and that of\\nPaul, My brother, said she, is as old as\\nthe great cocoa- tree of the fountain; and I am\\nas old as the little one: the mangoes have\\nborne fruit twelve times, and the orange-trees\\nhave flowered four-and-twenty times, since I\\ncame into the world. Their lives seemed\\nlinked to that of the trees, like those of Fauns\\nor Dryads. They knew no other historical\\nepochs than those of the lives of their mothers,\\nno other chronology than that of their orchards,\\nand no other philosophy than that of doing\\ngood, and resigning themselves to the will of\\nHeaven.\\nWhat need, indeed, had these young people\\nof riches or learning such as ours? Rather\\ntheir necessities and their ignorance increased\\ntheir happiness. No day passed in which they\\nwere not of some service to one another, or in\\nin which they did not mutually impart some\\ninstruction. Yes, instruction; for if errors\\nmingled with it, they were, at least, not of a\\ndangerous character. A pure-minded being has\\nnone of that description to fear. Thus grew\\nthese children of nature. No care had troubled\\ntheir peace, no intemperance had corrupted\\ntheir blood, no misplaced passion had depraved", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0108.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 97\\ntheir hearts. Love, innocence, and piety\\npossessed their souls; and those intellectual\\ngraces were unfolding daily in their features,\\ntheir attitudes, and their movements. Still in\\nthe morning of life, they had all its blooming\\nfreshness: and surely such in the garden of\\nEden appeared our first parents, when coming\\nfrom the hands of God, they first saw, and\\napproached each other, and conversed together,\\nlike brother and sister. Virginia was gentle,\\nmodest, and confiding as Eve; and Paul, like\\nAdam, united the stature of manhood with\\nthe simplicity of a child.\\nSometimes, if alone with Virginia, he has a\\nthousand times told me, he used to say to her,\\non his return from labor, When I am\\nwearied, the sight of you refreshes me. If\\nfrom the summit of the mountain I perceive\\nyou below in the valley, you appear to me in\\nthe midst of our orchard like a blooming rose-\\nbud. If you go towards our mother s house,\\nthe partridge, when it runs to meet its young,\\nhas a shape less beautiful, and a step less light.\\nWhen I lose sight of you through the trees, I\\nhave no need to see you in order to find you\\nagain. Something of you, I know not how,\\nremains for me in the air through which you\\nhave been passed, on the grass whereon you\\n7 Paul and Virginia", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0109.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "98 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nhave been seated. When I come near you,\\nyou delight all my senses. The azure of the\\nsky is less charming than the blue of your eyes,\\nand the song of the amadavid bird less soft\\nthan the sound of your voice. If I only touch\\nyou with the tip of my finger, my whole frame\\ntrembles with pleasure. Do you remember\\nthe day when we crossed over the great stones\\nof the river of the Three Breasts? I was very\\ntired before we reached the bank: but, as soon\\nas I had taken you in my arms, I seemed to\\nhave wings like a bird. Tell me by what\\ncharm you have thus enchanted me? Is it by\\nyour wisdom? Our mothers have more than\\neither of us. Is it by your caresses? They\\nembrace me much oftener than you. I think\\nit must be by your goodness. I shall never\\nforget how you walked barefooted to the Black\\nRiver, to ask pardon for the poor runaway slave.\\nHere, my beloved, take this flowering branch\\nof a lemon- tree, which I have gathered in the\\nforest: you will let it remain at night near\\nyour bed. Eat this honeycomb too, which I\\nhave taken for you from the top of a rock.\\nBut first lean on my bosom, and I shall be\\nrefreshed.\\nVirginia would answer him, Oh, my dear\\nbrother, the rays of the sun in the morning on", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0110.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 99\\nthe tops of the rocks give me less joy than the\\nsight of you. I love my mother, I love\\nyours but when they call you their son, I love\\nthem a thousand times more. When they\\ncaress you, I feel it more sensibly than when\\nI am caressed myself. You ask me what\\nmakes you love me. Why, all creatures that\\nare brought up together love one another.\\nLook at our birds reared up in the same nests,\\nthey love each other as we do they are always\\ntogether like us. Hark! how they call and\\nanswer from one tree to another. So when the\\nechoes bring to my ears the air which you play\\non your flute on the top of the mountain, I\\nrepeat the words at the bottom of the valley.\\nYou are dear to me more especially since the\\nday when you wanted to fight the master of the\\nslave for me. Since that time how often have\\nI said to myself, Ah, my brother has a good\\nheart; but for him, I should have died of\\nterror. I pray to God every day for my\\nmother and for yours, and for our poor serv-\\nants; but when I pronounce your name, my\\ndevotion seems to increase I ask so earnestly\\nof God that no harm may befall you Why do\\nyou go so far, and climb so high, to seek fruits\\nand flowers for me? Have we not enough in\\nour garden already? How much you are", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0111.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "100 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nfatigued, you look so warm! and with her\\nlittle white handkerchief she would wipe the\\ndamps from his face, and then imprint a tender\\nkiss on his forehead.\\nFor sometime past, however, Virginia had\\nfelt her heart agitated by new sensations. Her\\nbeautiful blue eyes lost their luster, her cheek\\nits freshness, and her frame was overpowered\\nwith a universal languor. Serenity no longer\\nsat upon her brow, nor smiles played upon her\\nlips. She would become all at once gay without\\ncause for joy, and melancholy without any\\nsubject for grief. She fled her innocent amuse-\\nments, her gentle toils, and even the society\\nof her beloved family; wandering about the\\nmost unfrequented parts of the plantations,\\nand seeking everywhere the rest which she\\ncould nowhere find. Sometimes, at the sight\\nof Paul, she advanced sportively to meet him\\nbut, when about to accost him, was overcome\\nby a sudden confusion; her pale cheeks were\\ncovered with blushes, and her eyes no longer\\ndared to meet those of her brother. Paul said\\nto her, The rocks are covered with verdure,\\nour birds, begin to sing when you approach,\\neverything around you is gay, and you only\\nare unhappy. He then endeavored to soothe\\nher by his embraces, but she turned away her", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0112.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 101\\nhead, and fled, trembling, towards her mother.\\nThe caresses of her brother excited too much\\nemotion in her agitated heart, and she sought,\\nin the arms of her mother, refuge from her-\\nself. Paul, unused to the secret windings of\\nthe female heart, vexed himself in vain in\\nendeavoring to comprehend the meaning of\\nthese new and strange caprices. Misfortunes\\nseldom come alone, and a serious calamity now\\nimpended over these families.\\nOne of those summers, which sometimes\\ndesolate the countries situated between the\\ntropics, now began to spread its ravages over\\nthis island. It was near the end of December,\\nwhen the sun, in Capricorn, darts over the\\nMauritius, during the space of three weeks, its\\nvertical fires. The southeast wind, which pre-\\nvails throughout almost the whole year, no\\nlonger blew. Vast columns of dust arose from\\nthe highways, and hung suspended in the air;\\nthe ground was everywhere broken into clefts\\nthe grass was burnt up hot exhalations issued\\nfrom the sides of the mountains, and their riv-\\nulets, for the most part, became dry. No\\nrefreshing cloud ever arose from the sea: fiery\\nvapors, only, during the day, ascended from the\\nplains, and appeared, at sunset, like the reflec-\\ntion of a vast conflagration. Night brought no", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0113.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "102 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\ncoolness to the heated atmosphere; and the\\nred moon rising in the misty horizon, appeared\\nof supernatural magnitude. The drooping\\ncattle, on the sides of the hills, stretching out\\ntheir necks towards heaven, and panting for\\nbreath, made the valleys re-echo with their\\nmelancholy lowings: even the Caffre by whom\\nthey were led, threw himself upon the earth,\\nin search of some cooling moisture: but his\\nhopes were vain the scorching sun had pene-\\ntrated the whole soil, and the stifling atmos-\\nphere everywhere resounded with the buzzing\\nnoise of insects, seeking to allay their thirst\\nwith the blood of men and of animals.\\nDuring this sultry season, Virginia s restless-\\nness and disquietude were much increased.\\nOne night, in particular, being unable to\\nsleep, she arose from her bed, sat down, and\\nreturned to rest again but could find in no at-\\ntitude either slumber or repose. At length she\\nbent her way, by the light of the moon, towards\\nher fountain, and gazed at its spring, which,\\nnotwithstanding the drought, still trickled, in\\nsilver threads down the brown sides of the\\nrock. She flung herself into the basin: its\\ncoolness reanimated her spirits, and a thousand\\nsoothing remembrances came to her mind.\\nShe recollected that in her infancy her mother", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0114.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 103\\nand Margaret had amused themselves by bath-\\ning her with Paul in this very spot that he\\nafterwards reserving this bath for her sole use,\\nhad hollowed out its bed, covered the bottom\\nwith sand, and sown aromatic herbs around its\\nborders. She saw in the water, upon her naked\\narms and bosom, the reflection of the two cocoa\\ntrees which were planted at her own and her\\nbrother s birth, and which interwove above her\\nhead their green branches and young fruit.\\nShe thought of Paul s friendship, sweeter than\\nthe odor of the blossoms, purer than the waters\\nof the fountain, stronger than the interwining\\npalm-tree, and she sighed. Reflecting on the\\nhour of the night, and the profound solitude,\\nher imagination became disturbed. Suddenly\\nshe flew, affrighted, from those dangerous\\nshades, and those waters which seemed to her\\nhotter than the tropical sunbeam, and ran to\\nher mother for refuge. More than once, wish-\\ning to reveal her sufferings, she pressed her\\nmother s hand within her own; more than\\nonce she w T as ready to pronounce the name of\\nPaul but her oppressed heart left her lips no\\npower of utterance, and, leaning her head on\\nher mother s bosom, she bathed it with her\\ntears.\\nMadame de la Tour, though she easily dis-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0115.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "104 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\ncerned the source of her daughter s uneasiness,\\ndid not think proper to speak to her on the sub-\\nject. My dear child, said she, offer up\\nyour supplications to God, who disposes at his\\nwill of health and of life. He subjects you to\\ntrial now, in order to recompense you here-\\nafter. Remember that we are only placed\\nupon earth for the exercise of virtue.\\nThe excessive heat in the meantime raised\\nvast masses of vapor from the ocean, which\\nhung over the island like an immense parasol,\\nand gathered round the summits of the moun-\\ntains. Long flakes of fire issued from time to\\ntime from these mist-embosomed peaks.\\nThe most awful thunder soon after re-echoed\\nthrough the woods, the plains, and the valleys;\\nthe rains fell from the skies in cataracts; foam-\\ning torrents rushed down the sides of this\\nmountain the bottom of the valley became a\\nsea, and the elevated platform on which the cot-\\ntages were built, a little island. The accumu-\\nlated waters, having no other outlet, rushed\\nwith violence through the narrow gorge which\\nleads into the valley, tossing and roaring, and\\nbearing along with them a mingled wreck of\\nsoil, trees, and rocks.\\nThe trembling families meantime addressed\\ntheir prayers to God all together in the cottage", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0116.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 105\\nof Madame de la Tour, the roof of which\\ncracked fearfully from the force of the winds.\\nSo incessant and vivid were the lightnings,\\nthat although the doors and window-shutters\\nwere securely fastened, every object without\\ncould be distinctly seen through the joints in\\nthe woodwork Paul, followed by Domingo,\\nwent with intrepidity from one cottage to\\nanother, notwithstanding the fury of the\\ntempest; here supporting a partition with a\\nbuttress, there driving in a stake; and only\\nreturning to the family to calm their fears, by\\nthe expression of a hope that the storm was\\npassing away. Accordingly, in the evening the\\nrains ceased, the trade-winds of the south-east\\npursued their ordinary course, the tempestuous\\nclouds were driven away to the northward, and\\nthe setting sun appeared in the horizon.\\nVirginia s first wish was to visit the spot\\ncalled her Resting-place. Paul approached\\nher with a timid air, and offered her the assist-\\nance of his arm she accepted it with a smile,\\nand they left the cottage together. The air\\nwas clear and fresh white vapors arose from\\nthe ridges of the mountain, which was fur-\\nrowed here and there by the courses of tor-\\nrents, marked in foam, and now beginning to\\ndry up on all sides. As for the garden, it was", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0117.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "106 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\ncompletely torn to pieces by deep water-courses,\\nthe roots of most of the fruit-trees were laid\\nbare, and vast heaps of sand covered the bor-\\nders of the meadows, and had choked up Vir-\\nginia s bath. The two cocoa trees, however,\\nwere still erect, and still retained their fresh-\\nness; but they were no longer surrounded by\\nturf, or arbors, or birds, except a few amadavid\\nbirds, which, upon the points of the neighbor-\\ning rocks, were lamenting, in plaintive notes,\\nthe loss of their young.\\nAt the sight of this general desolation, Vir-\\nginia exclaimed to Paul, You brought birds\\nhither, and the hurricane has killed them. You\\nplanted this garden, and it is now destroyed.\\nEverything then upon earth perishes, and it\\nis only Heaven that is not subject to change.\\nWhy, answered Paul, cannot I give you\\nsomething that belongs to heaven? but I have\\nnothing of my own, even upon the earth.\\nVirginia with a blush replied, You have the\\npicture of St. Paul. As soon as she had ut-\\ntered the words, he flew in quest of it to his\\nmother s cottage. This picture was a minia-\\nture of Paul the Hermit, which Margaret, who\\nviewed it with feelings of great devotion, had\\nworn at her neck while a girl, and which, after\\nshe became a mother, she had placed round", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0118.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 107\\nher child s. It had even happened, that being,\\nwhile pregnant, abandoned by all the world,\\nand constantly occupied in contemplating the\\nimage of this benevolent recluse, her offspring\\nhad contracted some semblance to this revered\\nobject. She, therefore, bestowed upon him\\nthe name of Paul, giving him for his patron a\\nsaint who had passed his life far from mankind\\nby whom he had been first deceived and then\\nforsaken. Virginia, on receiving this little\\npresent from the hands of Paul, said to him,\\nwith emotion, My dear brother, I will never\\npart with his while I live nor will I ever for-\\nget that you have given me the only thing you\\nhave in this world. At this tone of friend-\\nship, this unhoped-for return of familiarity\\nand tenderness, Paul attempted to embrace\\nher but, light as a bird, she escaped him, and\\nfled away, leaving him astonished, and unable\\nto account for conduct so extraordinary.\\nMeanwhile Margaret said to Madame de la\\nTour, Why do we not unite our children by\\nmarriage? They have a strong attachment for\\neach other, and though my son hardly under-\\nstands the real nature of his feelings, yet great\\ncare and watchfulness will be necessary. Un-\\nder such circumstances, it will be as well not to\\nleave them too much together. Madame de", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0119.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "108 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nla Tour replied, They are too young, and too\\npoor. What grief would it occasion us to see\\nVirginia bring into the world unfortunate chil-\\ndren, whom she would not perhaps have suffi-\\ncient strength to rear Your negro, Domingo,\\nis almost too old to labor Mary is infirm. As\\nfor myself, my dear friend, at the end of fifteen\\nyears, I find my strength greatly decreased;\\nthe feebleness of age advances rapidly in hot\\nclimates, and, above all, under the pressure of\\nmisfortune. Paul is our only hope let us wait\\ntill he comes to maturity, and his increased\\nstrength enables him to support us by his la-\\nbor, at present you well know that we have\\nonly sufficient to supply the wants of the day;\\nbut were we to send Paul for a short time to\\nthe Indies, he might acquire, by commerce, the\\nmeans of purchasing some slaves; and at his\\nreturn we could unite him to Virginia; for I\\nam persuaded no one on earth would render\\nher so happy as your son. We will consult our\\nneighbor on this subject. f\\nThey accordingly asked my advice, which was\\nin accordance with Madame de la Tour s opin-\\nion. The Indian seas, I observed to them,\\nare calm, and, in choosing a favorable time of\\nthe year, the voyage out is seldom longer than\\nsix weeks; and the same time may be allowed", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0120.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 109\\nfor the return home. We will furnish Paul with\\na little venture from my neighborhood, where\\nhe is much beloved. If we were only to sup-\\nply him with some raw cotton, of which we\\nmake no use for want of mills to work it, some\\nebony which is here so common that it serves\\nus for firing, and some rosin, which is found in\\nour woods, he would be able to sell those arti-\\ncles, though useless here, to good advantage\\nin the Indies.\\nI took upon myself to obtain permission from\\nMonsieur de la Bourdonnais to undertake this\\nvoyage; and I determined previously to men-\\ntion the affair to Paul. But what was my sur-\\nprise, when this young man said to me, with a\\ndegree of good sense above his age And why\\ndo you wish me to leave my family for this\\nprecarious pursuit of fortune? Is there any\\ncommerce in the world more advantageous than\\nthe culture of the ground, which yields some-\\ntimes fifty or a hundred-fold? If we wish to\\nengage in commerce, can we not do so by car-\\nrying our superfluities to the town without my\\nwandering to the Indies? Our mothers tell\\nme that Domingo is old and feeble; but I am\\nyoung, and gather strength every day. If any\\naccident should happen during my absence,", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0121.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "110 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nabove all to Virginia, who already suffers Oh,\\nno no! I cannot resolve to leave them.\\nSo decided an answer threw me into great\\nperplexity, for Madame de la Tour had not\\nconcealed from me the cause of Virginia s ill-\\nness and want of spirits, and her desire of sep-\\narating these young people till they were a few\\nyears older. I took care, however, not to drop\\nanything which could lead Paul to suspect the\\nexistence of these motives.\\nAbout this period a ship from France brought\\nMadame de la Tour a letter from her aunt.\\nThe fear of death, without which hearts as in-\\nsensible as hers would never feel f had alarmed\\nher into compassion. When she wrote she was\\nrecovering from a dangerous illness, which\\nhad, however, left her incurably languid and\\nweak. She desired her niece to return to\\nFrance; or, if her health forbade her to under-\\ntake so long a voyage, she begged her to send\\nVirginia, on whom she promised to bestow a\\ngood education, to procure for her a splendid\\nmarriage and to leave her heiress of her whole\\nfortune. She concluded by enjoining strict\\nobedience to her will, in gratitude, she said,\\nfor her great kindness.\\nAt the perusal of this letter general conster-\\nnation spread itself through the whole assem-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0122.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. Ill\\nbled party. Domingo and Mary began to\\nweep. Paul, motionless with surprise, ap-\\npeared almost ready to burst with indignation\\nwhile Virginia, fixing her eyes anxiously upon\\nher mother, had not power to utter a single\\nword. And can you now leave us?* -cried\\nMargaret to Madame de la Tour. No, my\\ndear friend, no, my beloved children, replied\\nMadame de la Tour. I will never leave you\\nI have lived with you, arid with you I will die.\\nI have known no happiness but in your affec-\\ntion. If my health be deranged, my past mis-\\nfortunes are the cause. My heart has been\\ndeeply wounded by the cruelty of my relations,\\nand by the loss of my beloved husband. But\\nI have since found more consolation and more\\nreal happiness with you in these humble huts,\\nthan all the wealth of my family could now lead\\nme to expect in my own country.\\nAt this soothing language every eye over-\\nflowed with tears of delight. Paul, pressing\\nMadame de la Tour in his arms, exclaimed,\\n44 Neither will I leave you! I will not go to the\\nIndies. We will all labor for you, dear mam-\\nma, and you shall never feel any want with\\nus. 7 But of the whole society, the person who\\ndisplayed the least transport, and who probably\\nfelt the most, was Virginia; and during the", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0123.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "112 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nremainder of the day, the gentle gayety which\\nflowed from her heart, and proved that her\\npeace of mind was restored, completed the gen-\\neral satisfaction.\\nAt sunrise the next day, just as they had\\nconcluded offering up, as usual, their morning\\nprayer before breakfast, Domingo came to in-\\nform them that a gentleman on horseback, fol-\\nlowed by two slaves, was coming towards the\\nplantation. It was Monsieur de la Bourdon-\\nnais. He entered the cottage, where he found\\nthe family at breakfast. Virginia had pre-\\npared, according to the custom of the country,\\ncoffee, and rice boiled in water. To these she\\nhad added hot yams, and fresh plantains. The\\nleaves of the plantain-tree supplied the want of\\ntable linen and calabash shells, split in two,\\nserved for cups. The Governor exhibited, at\\nfirst, some astonishment at the homeliness of\\nthe dwelling; then, addressing himself to\\nMadame de la Tour, he observed, that although\\npublic affairs drew his attention too much from\\nthe concerns of individuals, she had many\\nclaims on his good offices. You have an aunt\\nat Paris, madam, he added, a woman of\\nquality, and immensely rich, who expects that\\nyou will hasten to see her, and who means to\\nbestow upon you her whole fortune. Madame", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0124.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "It was Monsieur de la Bourdonnais. Page 112,\\nPaul and Virginia.", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0125.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0126.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 113\\nde la Tour replied that the state of her health\\nwould not permit her to undertake so long a\\nvoyage. At least/ resumed Monsieur de la\\nBourdonnais, you cannot without injustice,\\ndeprive this amiable young lady, your daughter,\\nof so noble an inheritance. I will not conceal\\nfrom you, that your aunt has made use of her\\ninfluence to secure your daughter being sent\\nto her; and that I have received official letters,\\nin which I am ordered to exert my authority, if\\nnecessary, to that effect. But as I only wish\\nto employ my power for the purpose of render-\\ning the inhabitants of this country happy, I ex-\\npect from your good sense the voluntary sacri-\\nfice of a few years, upon which your daughter s\\nestablishment in the world, and the welfare of\\nyour whole life depends. Wherefore do we\\ncome to these islands? Is it not to acquire a\\nfortune? And will it not be more agreeable to\\nreturn and find it in your own country?\\nHe then took a large bag of piastres from\\none of his slaves, and placed it upon the table.\\nThis sum, he continued, is allotted by your\\naunt to defray the outlay necessary for the\\nequipment of the young lady for her voyage.\\nGently reproaching Madame de la Tour for not\\nhaving had recourse to him in her difficulties,\\nhe extolled at the same time her noble forti-\\n8 Paul and Virginia", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0127.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "114 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\ntude. Upon this Paul said to the Governor,\\nMy mother did apply to you, sir, and you re-\\nceived her ill. Have you another child,\\nmadam/ said Monsieur de la Bourdonnais to\\nMadame de la Tour. No, sir, she replied,\\nthis is the son of my friend; but he and Vir-\\nginia are equally dear to us, and we mutually\\nconsider them both as our own children.\\nYoung man, said the Governor to Paul,\\nwhen you have acquired a little more experi-\\nence of the world, you will know that it is the\\nmisfortune of people in place to be deceived,\\nand bestow, in consequence, upon intriguing\\nvice, that which they would wish to give to\\nmodest merit.\\nMonsieur de la Bourdonnais, at the request\\nof Madame de la Tour, placed himself next to\\nher at the table, and breakfasted after the\\nmanner of the Creoles, upon coffee, mixed with\\nrice boiled in water. He was delighted with\\nthe order and cleanliness which prevailed in\\nthe little cottage, the harmony of the two inter-\\nesting families, and the zeal of their old serv-\\nants. Here, he exclaimed, M I discern only\\nwooden furniture: but I find serene counte-\\nnances and hearts of gold. Paul, enchanted\\nwith the affability of the Governor, said to\\nhim, I wish to be your friend, for you are", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0128.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 115\\na good man. Monsieur de la Bourdonnais.\\nreceived with pleasure this insular compli-\\nment, and, taking Paul by the hand, assured\\nhim he might rely upon his friendship.\\nAfter breakfast, he took Madame de la Tour\\naside and informed her that an opportunity\\nwould soon offer itself of sending her daughter\\nto France, in a ship which was going to sail in\\na short time; that he would put her under\\nthe charge of a lady, one of the passengers,\\nwho was a relation of his own and that she\\nmust not think of renouncing an immense for-\\ntune, on account of the pain of being separated\\nfrom her daughter for a brief interval. Your\\naunt, he added, M cannot live more than two\\nyears; of this I am assured by her friends.\\nThink of it seriously. Fortune does not visit\\nus every day. Consult your friends. I am\\nsure that every person of good sense will be of\\nmy opinion. She answered, that, as she de-\\nsired no other happiness henceforth in the\\nworld than in promoting that of her daughter,\\nshe hoped to be allowed to leave her departure\\nfor France entirely to her own inclination.\\nMadame de la Tour was not sorry to find an\\nopportunity of separating Paul and Virginia for\\na short time, and provide, by this means, for\\ntheir mutual felicity at a future period. She", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0129.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "116 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\ntook her daughter aside, and said to her, My\\ndear child, our servants are now old. Paul is\\nstill very young, Margaret is advanced in\\nyears, and I am already infirm. If I should\\ndie what would become of you, without for-\\ntune, in the midst of these deserts? You\\nwould then be left alone, without any person\\nwho could afford you much assistance, and\\nJ 7\\nwould be obliged to labor without ceasing, as a\\nhired servant, in order to support your\\nwretched existence. This idea overcomes me\\nwith sorrow. Virginia answered, God has\\nappointed us to labor, and to bless him every\\nday. Up to this time he has never forsaken\\nus, and he never will forsake us in time to\\ncome. His providence watches most espe-\\ncially over the unfortunate. You have told me\\nthis very often, my dear mother! I cannot\\nresolve to leave you. Madame de la Tour\\nreplied, with much emotion,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I have no other\\naim than to render you happy, and to marry\\nyou one day to Paul, who is not really your\\nbrother. Remember, then, that his fortune\\ndepends upon you.\\nA young girl who is in love believes that\\nevery one else is ignorant of her passion she\\nthrows over her eyes the veil with which she\\ncovers the feelings of her heart but when it", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0130.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 117\\nis once lifted by a friendly hand, the hidden\\nsorrows of her attachment escape as through a\\nnewly-opened barrier, and the sweet outpour-\\nings of unrestrained confidence succeed to her\\nformer mystery and reserve. Virginia, deeply\\naffected by this new pioof of her mother s ten-\\nderness, related to her the cruel struggles she\\nhad undergone, of which heaven alone had\\nbeen witness; she saw, she said, the hand of\\nProvidence in the assistance of an affectionate\\nmother, who approved of her attachment and\\nwould guide her by her counsels and as she\\nwas now strengthened by such support, every\\nconsideration led her to remain with her\\nmother, without anxiety for the present, and\\nwithout apprehension for the future.\\nMadame de la Tour, perceiving that this\\nconfidential conversation had produced an\\neffect altogether different from that which she\\nexpected, said, My dear child, I do not wish\\nto constrain you think over it at leisure, but\\nconceal your affection from Paul. It is better\\nnot to let a man know that the heart of his mis-\\ntress is gained.\\nVirginia and her mother were sitting to-\\ngether by themselves the same evening, when\\na tall man, dressed in a blue cassock, entered\\ntheir cottage. He was a missionary priest and", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0131.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "118 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nthe confessor of Madame de la Tour and her\\ndaughter, who had now been sent them by the\\nGovernor. My children, he exclaimed as\\nhe entered, God be praised you are now rich.\\nYou can now attend to the kind suggestions of\\nyour benevolent hearts, and do good to the\\npoor. I know what Monsieur de la Bourdon-\\nnais has said to you, and what you have said in\\nreply. Your health, dear madam, obliges you\\nto remain here but you, young lady, are\\nwithout excuse. We must obey the directions\\nof Providence and we must also obey our aged\\nrelations, even when they are unjust. A sacri-\\nfice is required of you but it is the will of God.\\nOur Lord devoted himself for you; and you\\nin imitation of his example, must give up\\nsomething for the welfare of your family.\\nYour voyage to France will end happily. You\\nwill surely consent to go, my dear young\\nlady.\\nVirginia, with dowmcast eyes, answered,\\ntrembling, If it is the command of God, I will\\nnot presume to oppose it. Let the will of God\\nbe done! As she uttered these words, she\\nwept.\\nThe priest went away, in order to inform the\\nGovernor of the success of his mission. In the\\nmeantime Madame de la Tour sent Domingo", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0132.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 119\\nto request me to come to her, that she might\\nconsult me respecting Virginia s departure. I\\nwas not at all of opinion that she ought to go.\\nI consider it as a fixed principle of happiness\\nthat we ought to prefer the advantages of\\nnature to those of fortune, and never go in\\nsearch of that at a distance, which we may-\\nfind at home, in our own bosoms. But what\\ncould be expected from my advice, in opposi-\\ntion to the illusions of a splendid fortune? or\\nfrom my simple reasoning, when in competi-\\ntion with the prejudices of the world, and an\\nauthority held sacred by Madame de la Tour?\\nThis lady indeed had only consulted me out of\\npoliteness; she had ceased to deliberate since\\nshe had heard the decision of her confessor.\\nMargaret herself, who, notwithstanding the\\nadvantages she expected for her son from the\\npossession of Virginia s fortune, had hitherto\\nopposed her departure, made no further objec-\\ntions. As for Paul, in ignorance of what had\\nbeen determined, but alarmed at the secret\\nconversations which Virginia had been holding\\nwith her mother, he abandoned himself to\\nmelancholy. They are plotting something\\nagainst me, cried he for they conceal every-\\nthing from me.\\nA report having in the meantime been", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0133.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "120 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nspread in the island that fortune had visited\\nthese rocks, merchants of every description\\nwere seen climbing their steep ascent. Now,\\nfor the first time, were seen displayed in these\\nhumble huts the richest stuffs of India; the\\nfine dimity of Gondelore the handkerchiefs of\\nPellicate and Masulipatan the plain, striped,\\nand embroidered muslins of Dacca, so beauti-\\nfully transparent the delicate white cottons of\\nSurat, and linens of all colors. They also\\nbrought with them the gorgeous silks of China,\\nsatin damasks, some white, and others grass-\\ngreen and bright red; pink taffetas, with a\\nprofusion of satins and gauze of Tonquin, both\\nplain and decorated with flowers soft pekins,\\ndowny as cloth with white and yellow nan-\\nkeens, and the calicoes of Madagascar.\\nMadame de la Tour wished her daughter to\\npurchase whatever she liked; she only ex-\\namined the goods, and inquired the price, to\\ntake care that the dealers did not cheat her.\\nVirginia made choice of everything she\\nthought would be useful or agreeable to her\\nmother, or to Margaret and her son. This,\\nsaid she, will be wanted for furnishing the\\ncottage, and that will be very useful to Mary\\nand Domingo. In short, the bag of piastres\\nwas almost emptied before she even began to", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0134.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 121\\nconsider her own wants; and she was obliged\\nto receive back for her own use a share of the\\npresents which she had distributed among the\\nfamily circle.\\nPaul, overcome with sorrow at the sight of\\nthese gifts of fortune, which he felt were a\\npresage of Virginia s departure, came a few\\ndays after to my dwelling. With an air of\\ndeep despondency he said to me, My sister\\nis going away she is already making prepara-\\ntions for her voyage. I conjure you to come\\nand exert your influence over her mother and\\nmine, in order to detain her here. I could\\nnot refuse the young man s solicitations,\\nalthough well convinced that my representa-\\ntions would be unavailing.\\nVirginia had ever appeared to me charming\\nwhen clad in the coarse cloth of Bengal, with a\\nred handkerchief tied around her head you\\nmay therefore imagine how much her beauty\\nwas increased when she was attired in the\\ngraceful and elegant costume worn by the ladies\\nof this country! She had on a white muslin\\ndress, lined with pink taffeta. Her somewhat\\ntall and slender figure was shown to advantage\\nin her new attire, and the simple arrangement\\nof her hair accorded admirably with the form\\nof her head. Her fine blue eyes were filled", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0135.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "122 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nwith an expression of melancholy; and the\\nstruggles of passion, with which her heart was\\nagitated, imparted a flush to her cheek, and to\\nher voice a tone of deep emotion. The con-\\ntrast between her pensive look and her gay\\nhabiliments rendered her more interesting than\\never, nor was it possible to see or hear her un-\\nmoved. Paul became more and more melan-\\ncholy; and at length Margaret, distressed at\\nthe situation of her son, took him aside, and\\nsaid to him, Why, my dear child, will you\\ncherish vain hopes, which will only render\\nyour disappointment more bitter? It is time\\nfor me to make known to you the secret of your\\nlife and of mine Mademoiselle de la Tour be-\\nlongs, by her mother s side, to a rich and noble\\nfamily, while you are but the son of a poor\\npeasant girl and what is worse, you are illegi-\\ntimate.\\nPaul, who had never heard this last expres-\\nsion before, inquired with eagerness its mean-\\ning. His mother replied, I was not married\\nto your father. When I was a girl, seduced\\nby love, I was guilty of a weakness of which\\nyou are the offspring. The consequence of\\nmy fault is, that you are deprived of the pro-\\ntection of a father s family, and by my flight\\nfrom home you have also lost that of your", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0136.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 123\\nmother s. Unfortunate child! you have no re-\\nlation in the world but me! and she shed a\\nflood of tears. Paul, pressing her in his arms,\\nexclaimed, Oh, my dear mother! since I\\nhave no relation in the world but you, I will\\nlove you all the more. But what a secret have\\nyou just disclosed to me I now see the reason\\nwhy Mademoiselle de la Tour has estranged\\nherself so much from me for the last two\\nmonths, and why she has determined to go to\\nFrance. Ah I perceive too well that she de-\\nspises me!\\nThe hour of supper being arrived, we gath-\\nered round the table but the different sensa-\\ntions with which we were agitated left, us little\\ninclination to eat, and the meal, if such it may\\nbe called, passed in silence. Virginia was the\\nfirst to rise she went out, and seated herself\\non the very spot where we now are. Paul has-\\ntened after her, and sat down by her side.\\nBoth of them, for some time, kept a profound\\nsilence. It was one of those delicious nights\\nwhich are so common between the tropics, and\\nto the beauty of which no pencil can do justice.\\nThe moon appeared in the midst of the firma-\\nment, surrounded by a curtain of clouds, which\\nwas gradually unfolded by her beams. Her\\nlight insensibly spread itself over the moun-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0137.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "124 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\ntains of the island, and their distant peaks glis-\\ntened with a silvery green. The winds were\\nperfectly still. We heard among the woods, at\\nthe bottom of the valleys, and on the summits\\nof the rocks, the piping cries and the soft\\nnotes of the birds, wantoning in their nests,\\nand rejoicing in the brightness of the night and\\nthe serenity of the atmosphere. The hum of\\ninsects was heard in the grass. The stars\\nsparkled in the heavens, and their lucid orbs\\nwere reflected, in trembling sparkles, from the\\ntranquil bosom of the ocean. Virginia* s eye\\nwandered distractedly over its vast and gloomy\\nhorizon, distinguishable from the shore of the\\nisland only by the red fires in the fishing\\nboats. She perceived at the entrance of the\\nharbor a light and a shadow these were the\\nwatch-light and the hull of the vessel in\\nwhich she was to embark for Europe, and\\nwhich, all ready for sea, lay at anchor, waiting\\nfor a breeze, Affected at this sight, she turned\\naway her head, in order to hide her tears from\\nPaul.\\nMadame de la Tour, Margaret, and I, were\\nseated at a little distance, beneath the plantain\\ntrees; and, owing to the stillness of the night,\\nwe distinctly heard their conversation, which I\\nhave not forgotten", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0138.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 125\\nPaul said to her, You are going away from\\nus, they tell me, in three days. You do not\\nfear then to encounter the danger of the sea,\\nat the sight of which you are so much terri-\\nfied I must perform my duty, answered\\nVirginia, by obeying my parent. 1 You\\nleave us, resumed Paul, for a distant rela-\\ntion, whom you have never seen. Alas!\\ncried Virginia, I would have remained here\\nmy whole life, but my mother would not have\\nit so. My confessor, too, told me it was the\\nwill of God that I should go, and that life was\\na scene of trials and oh this is indeed a se-\\nvere one.\\nWhat! exclaimed Paul, you could find so\\nmany reasons for going, and not one for re-\\nmaining here! Ah! there is one reason for\\nyour departure that you have not mentioned.\\nRiches have great attractions. You will soon\\nfind in the new world to which you are going,\\nanother, to whom you will give the name of\\nbrother, which you bestow on me no more,\\nYou will choose that brother from amongst\\npersons who are worthy of you by their birth,\\nand by a fortune which I have not to offer.\\nBut where can you go to be happier? On what\\nshore will you land, and find it dearer to you\\nthan the spot which gave you birth? and", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0139.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "126 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nwhere will you form around you a society more\\ndelightful to you than this, by which you are\\nso much beloved? How will you bear to live\\nwithout your mother s caresses, to which you\\nare so much accustomed? What will become\\nof her, already advanced in years, when she\\nno longer sees you at her side at table, in the\\nhouse, in the walks, where she used to lean\\nupon you? What will become of my mother,\\nwho loves you w r ith the same affection? What\\nshall I say to comfort them when I see them\\nweeping for your absence? Cruel Virginia! I\\nsay nothing to you of myself; but what will\\nbecome of me, when in the morning I shall no\\nmore see you when the evening will come,\\nand not reunite us? when I shall gaze on these\\ntwo palm trees, planted at our birth, and so\\nlong the witnesses of our mutual friendship?\\nAh! since your lot is changed, since you seek\\nin a far country other possessions than the\\nfruits of my labor, let me go with you in the\\nvessel in which you are about to embark, I\\nwill sustain your spirits in the midst of those\\ntempests which terrify you so much even on\\nshore. I will lay my head upon your bosom\\nI w r ill warm your heart upon my own and in\\nFrance, where you are going in search of for-\\ntune and of grandeur, I will wait upon you as", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0140.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 127\\nyour slave. Happy only in your happiness,\\nyou will find me, in those palaces where I shall\\nsee you receiving the homage and adoration of\\nall, rich and noble enough to make you the\\ngreatest of all sacrifices, by dying at your feet.\\nThe violence of his emotions stopped his ut-\\nterance, and we then heard Virginia, who, in a\\nvoice broken by sobs, uttered these words:\\nIt is for you that I go, for you whom I see\\ntired to death every day by the labor of sus-\\ntaining two helpless families. If I have ac-\\ncepted this opportunity of becoming rich, it is\\nonly to return a thousand-fold the good which\\nyou have done us. Can any fortune be equal\\nto your friendship? Why do you talk about\\nyour birth? Ah it if were possible for me still\\nto have a brother, should I make choice of any\\nother than you? Oh, Paul, Paul! you are far\\ndearer to me than a brother! How much has\\nit cost me to repulse you from me! Help me\\nto tear myself from what I value more than\\nexistence, till Heaven shall bless our union.\\nBut I will stay or go, I will live or die, dis-\\npose of me as you will. Unhappy that I am!\\nI could have repelled your caresses but I can-\\nnot support your affliction.\\nAt these words, Paul seized her in his arms,\\nand, holding her pressed close to his bosom,", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0141.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "128 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nsaid, in a piercing tone, I will go with her,\\nnothing shall ever part us. We all ran to-\\nwards him and Madame de la Tour said to\\nhim, My son, if you go, what will become of\\nus!\\nHe, trembling, repeated after her the words,\\nMy son my son! You my mother cried\\nhe: you, who would separate the brother\\nfrom the sister We have both been nourished\\nat your bosom; we have both been reared\\nupon your knees; we have learnt of you to\\nlove one another; we have said so a thousand\\ntimes and now you would separate her from\\nme you would send her to Europe, that in-\\nhospitable country which refused you an asy-\\nlum and to relations by whom you yourself\\nwere abandoned. You will tell me that I have\\nno right over her, and that she is not my sis-\\nter. She is everything to me my riches, my\\nbirth, my family, all that I have! I know\\nno other. We have had but one roof, one\\ncradle, and we will have but one grave! If\\nshe goes, I will follow her. The Governor\\nwill prevent me! Will he prevent me from\\nflinging myself into the sea? will he prevent\\nme from following her by swimming? The sea\\ncannot be more fatal to me than the land.\\nSince I cannot live with her, at least I will die", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0142.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 129\\nbefore her eyes, far from you. Inhuman\\nmother woman without compassion may\\nthe ocean to which you trust her, restore her to\\nyou no more! May the waves, rolling back\\nour bodies amid the shingles of this beach,\\ngive you, in the loss of your two children, an\\neternal subject of remorse!\\nAt these words, I seized him in my arms,\\nfor despair had deprived him of reason. His\\neyes sparkled with fire, the perspiration fell in\\ngreat drops from his face his knees trembled,\\nand I felt his heart beat violently against his\\nburning bosom.\\nVirginia, alarmed, said to him, Oh, my\\ndear Paul. I call to witness the pleasures of our\\nearly age, your griefs and my own, and every-\\nthing that can forever bind two unfortunate\\nbeings to each other, that if I remain at home,\\nI will live but for you; that if I go, I will one\\nday return to be yours. I call you all to wit-\\nness you who have reared me. from my in-\\nfancy, who dispose of my life, and who see my\\ntears. I swear by that Heaven which hears\\nme, by the sea which I am going to pass, by\\nthe air I breathe, and which I never sullied by\\na falsehood.\\nAs the sun softens and precipitates an icy\\nrock from the summit of one of the Apen-\\n9 Paul and Virginia", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0143.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "130 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nnines, so the impetuous passions of the young\\nman were subdued by the voice of her he\\nloved. He bent his head, and a torrent of\\ntears fell from his eyes. His mother, ming-\\nling her tears with his, held him in her arms,\\nbut was unable to speak. Madame de la Tour,\\nhalf-distracted, said to me, I can bear this no\\nlonger. My heart is quite broken. This un-\\nfortunate voyage shall not take place. Do take\\nmy son home with you. Not one of us has\\nhad any rest the whole week.\\nI said to Paul, My dear friend, your sister\\nshall remain here. To-morrow we will talk to\\nthe Governor about it; leave your family to\\ntake some rest, and come and pa;ss the night\\nwith me. It is late it is midnight the south-\\nern cross is just above the horizon.\\nHe suffered himself to be led away in silence\\nand, after a night of great agitation, he arose\\nat break of day, and returned home.\\nBut why should I continue any longer to you\\nthe recital of this history? There is but one\\naspect of human existence which we can ever\\ncontemplate with pleasure. Like the globe\\nupon which we revolve, the fleeting course of\\nlife is but a day; and if one part of that day\\nbe visited by light, the other is thrown into\\ndarkness.", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0144.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 131\\nMy father, I answered, finish, I conjure\\nyou, the history which 3^ou have begun in a\\nmanner so interesting. If the images of hap-\\npiness are the most pleasing, those of misfor-\\ntune are the more instructive. Tell me what\\nbecame of the unhappy young man.\\nThe first object beheld by Paul in his way\\nhome was the negro woman Mary, who,\\nmounted on a rock, w T as earnestly looking\\ntowards the sea. As soon as he perceived\\nher. he called to her from a distance, Where\\nis Virginia? Mary turned her head towards\\nher young master, and began to weep. Paul,\\ndistracted, retracing his steps, ran to the har-\\nbor. He was informed that Virginia had\\nembarked at the break of day, and that the\\nvessel had immediately set sail, and was now\\nout of sight. He instantly returned to the\\nplantation, which he crossed without uttering\\na word.\\nQuite perpendicular as appears the walls of\\nrocks behind us, those green platforms which\\nseparate their summits are so many stages, by\\nmeans of which you may reach, through some\\ndifficult paths, that cone of sloping and inac-\\ncessible rocks, which is called The Thumb.\\nAt the foot of that cone is an extended slope\\nof ground, covered with lofty trees, and so steep", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0145.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "132 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nand elevated that it looks like a forest in the\\nair, surrounded by tremendous precipices.\\nThe clouds, which are constantly attracted\\nround the summit of The Thumb, supply\\ninnumerable rivulets, which fall to so great a\\ndepth in the valley situated on the other side\\nof the mountain, that from this elevated point\\nthe sound of their cataracts cannot be heard.\\nFrom that spot you can discern a considerable\\npart of the island, diversified by precipices and\\nmountain peaks, and amongst others, Peter-\\nBooth, and the Three Breasts, with their val-\\nleys full of woods. You also command an\\nextensive view of the ocean, and can even per-\\nceive the Isle of Bourbon, forty leagues to the\\nwestward. From the summit of that stupend-\\nous pile of rocks Paul caught sight of the vessel\\nwhich was bearing away Virginia, and which\\nnow, ten leagues out at sea, appeared like a\\nblack spot in the midst of the ocean. He\\nremained a great part of the day with his eyes\\nfixed upon this object: when it disappeared,\\nhe still fancied he beheld it; and when, at\\nlength, the traces which clung to his imagina-\\ntion were lost in the mists of the horizon, he\\nseated himself on that wild point, forever\\nbeaten by the winds, which never cease to\\nagitate the tops of the cabbage and gum-trees,", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0146.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 133\\nand the hoarse and moaning murmurs of\\nwhich, similar to the distant sound of organs,\\ninspire a profound melancholy. On this spot\\nI found him, his head reclining on the rock,\\nand his eyes fixed upon the ground. I had fol-\\nlowed him from the earliest dawn, and, after\\nmuch importunity, I prevailed on him to\\ndescend from the heights, and return to his\\nfamily. I went home with him, where the\\nfirst impulse of his mind, on seeing Madame de\\nla Tour, was to reproach her bitterly for having\\ndeceived him. She told us that a favorable\\nwind having sprung up at three o clock in the\\nmorning, and the vessel being ready to sail,\\nthe Governor, attended by some of his staff and\\nthe missionary, had come with a palanquin to\\nfetch her daughter and that, notwithstanding\\nVirginia s objections, her own tears and\\nentreaties, and the lamentations of Margaret,\\neverybody exclaiming all the time that it was\\nfor the general welfare, they had carried her\\naway almost dying. At least, cried Paul,\\nif I had bid her farewell, I should now be\\nmore calm. I would have said to her, Vir-\\nginia, if, during the time we have lived\\ntogether, one word may have escaped me\\nwhich has offended you, before you leave me\\nforever, tell me that you forgive me. I would", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0147.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "134 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nhave said to her, Since I am destined to see\\nyou no more, farewell, my dear Virginia, fare-\\nwell Live far from me contented and happy\\nWhen he saw that his mother and Madame de\\nla Tour were weeping, You must now, said\\nhe, seek some other hand to wipe away your\\ntears; and then, rushing out of the house,\\nand groaning aloud, he wandered up and down\\nthe plantation. He hovered in particular\\nabout those spots which had been most endear-\\ning to Virginia. He said to the goats, and\\ntheir little ones, which followed him bleating,\\nWhat do you want of me? You will see\\nw r ith me no more her who used to feed you\\nwith her own hand. He went to the bower\\ncalled Virginia s Resting-place and, as the\\nbirds flew around him, exclaimed, Poor birds!\\nyou will fly no more to meet her who cherished\\nyou! and observing Fidele running back-\\nwards and forwards in search of her, he heaved\\na deep sigh, and cried, Ah! you will never\\nfind her again. At length he went and seated\\nhimself upon a rock where he had conversed\\nwith her the preceding evening; and at the\\nsight of the ocean upon which he had seen the\\nvessel disappear which had borne her away, his\\nheart overflowed with anguish, and he wept\\nbitterly.", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0148.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 135\\nWe continually watched his movements,\\napprehensive of some fatal consequence from\\nthe violent agitation of his mind. His mother\\nand Madame de la Tour conjured him, in the\\nmost tender manner, not to increase their\\naffliction by his despair. At length the latter\\nsoothed his mind by lavishing upon him epithets\\ncalculated to awaken his hopes, calling him\\nher son, her dear son, her son-in-law, whom\\nshe destined for her daughter. She persuaded\\nhim to return home, and to take some food.\\nHe seated himself next to the place which used\\nto be occupied by the companion of his child-\\nhood; and, as if she had still been present, he\\nspoke to her, and made as though he would\\noffer her whatever he knew was most agreeable\\nto her taste: then, starting from this dream\\nof fancy, he began to weep. For some days\\nhe employed himself in gathering every thing\\nwhich had belonged to Virginia, the last nose-\\ngays she had worn, the cocoa-shell from which\\nshe used to drink and after kissing a thousand\\ntimes these relics of his beloved, to him the\\nmost precious treasures which the world con-\\ntained, he hid them in his bosom. Amber does\\nnot shed so sweet a perfume as the veriest trifles\\ntouched by those we love. At length, perceiv-\\ning that the indulgence of his grief increased", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0149.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "136 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nthat of his mother and Madame de la Tour, and\\nthat the wants of the family demanded contin-\\nual labor, he began, with the assistance of Do-\\nmingo, to repair the damage done to the\\ngarden.\\nBut, soon after, this young man, hitherto\\nindifferent as a Creole to everything that was\\npassing in the world, begged of me to teach\\nhim to read and write, in order that he might\\ncorrespond with Virginia. He afterwards\\nwished to obtain a knowledge of geography,\\nthat he might form some idea of the country\\nwhere she would disembark and of history,\\nthat he might know something of the manners\\nof the society in which she would be placed.\\nThe powerful sentiment of love, which directed\\nhis present studies, had already instructed him\\nin agriculture, and in the art of laying out\\ngrounds with advantage and beauty. It must\\nbe admitted, that to the fond dreams of this\\nrestless and ardent passion, mankind are\\nindebted for most of the arts and sciences,\\nwhile its disappointments have given birth to\\nphilosophy, which teaches us to bear up under\\nmisfortune. Love, thus, the general link of all\\nbeings, becomes the great spring of society, by\\ninciting us to knowledge as well as to pleasure.\\nPaul found little satisfaction in the studv of", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0150.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 137\\ngeography, which, instead of describing the\\nnatural history of each country, gave only a\\nview of its political divisions and boundaries.\\nHistory, and especially modern history, inter-\\nested him little more. He there saw only gen-\\neral and periodical evils, the causes of which\\nhe could not discover; wars without either\\nmotive or reason; uninteresting intrigues;\\nwith nations destitute of principle, and princes\\nvoid of humanity. To this branch of reading\\nhe preferred romances, which, being chiefly\\noccupied by the feelings and concerns of men,\\nsometimes represented situations similar to his\\nown. Thus, no book gave him so much pleas-\\nure as Telemachus, from the pictures it draws\\nof pastoral life, and of the passions which are\\nmost natural to the human breast. He read\\naloud to his mother and Madame de la Tour\\nthose parts which affected him most sensibly\\nbut sometimes, touched by the most tender\\nremembrances, his emotion would choke his\\nutterance, and his eyes be filled with tears.\\nHe fancied he had found in Virginia the dig-\\nnity and wisdom of Antiope, united to the\\nmisfortunes and the tenderness of Eucharis.\\nWith very different sensations he perused our\\nfashionable novels, filled with licentious morals\\nand maxims, and when he was informed that", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0151.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "138 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nthese works drew a tolerably faithful picture of\\nEuropean society, he trembled, and not without\\nsome appearance of reason, lest Virginia should\\nbecome corrupted by it, and forget him.\\nMore than a year and a half, indeed, passed\\naway before Madame de la Tour received any\\ntidings of her aunt or her daughter. During\\nthat period she only accidentally heard that\\nVirginia had safely arrived in France. At\\nlength, however, a vessel which stopped here\\non its way to the Indies brought a packet to\\nMadame de la Tour, and a letter written by\\nVirginia s own hand. Although this amiable\\nand considerate girl had written in a guarded\\nmanner that she might not wound her mother s\\nfeelings, it appeared evident enough that she\\nwas unhappy. The letter painted so naturally\\nher situation and her character, that I have re-\\ntained it almost word for word.\\nMy dear and beloved Mother,\\nI have already sent you several letters,\\nwritten by my own hand, but having received\\nno answer, I am afraid they have not reached\\nyou. I have better hopes for this, from the\\nmeans I have now gained of sending you tid-\\nings of myself, and of hearing from you.\\nI have shed many tears since our separa-\\ntion, I who never used to weep, but for the", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0152.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 139\\nmisfortunes of others! My aunt was much\\nastonished, when, having, upon my arrival, in-\\nquired what accomplishments I possessed, I\\ntold her that I could neither read nor write.\\nShe asked me what then I had learnt, since I\\ncame into the world; and when I answered\\nthat I had been taught to take care of the\\nhousehold affairs, and to obey your will, she\\ntold me that I had received the education of a\\nservant. The next day she placed me as a\\nboarder in a great abbey near Paris, where I\\nhave masters of all kinds, who teach me among\\nother things, history, geography, grammar,\\nmathematics, and riding on horseback. But I\\nhave so little capacity for all these sciences,\\nthat I fear I shall make but small progress\\nwith my masters. I feel that I am a very poor\\ncreature, with very little ability to learn what\\nthey teach. My aunt s kindness, however, does\\nnot decrease. She gives me new dresses every\\nseason; and she has placed two waiting women\\nwith me, who are dressed like fine ladies. She\\nhas made me take the title of countess; but has\\nobliged me to renounce the name of La Tour,\\nwhich is as dear to me as it is to you, from all\\nyou have told me of the sufferings my father\\nendured in order to marry you. She has given\\nme in place of your name that of your family,", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0153.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "140 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nwhich is also dear to me, because it was your\\nname when a girl. Seeing myself in so splen-\\ndid a situation, I implored her to let me send\\nyou something to assist you. But how shall I\\nrepeat her answer! Yet you have desired me\\nalways to tell you the truth. She told me then\\nthat a little would be of no use to you, and\\nthat a great deal would only encumber you in\\nthe simple life you led. As you know I could\\nnot write, I endeavored upon my arrival, to\\nsend you tidings of myself by another hand\\nbut, finding no person here in whom I could\\nplace confidence, I applied night and day to\\nlearn to read and write, and Heaven, who saw\\nmy motive for learning, no doubt assisted my\\nendeavors, for I succeeded in both for a short\\ntime. I entrusted my first letters to some of\\nthe ladies here, who, I have reason to think,\\ncarried them to my aunt. This time I have\\nrecourse to a boarder, who is my friend. I\\nsend you her direction, by means of which 1\\nshall receive your answer. My aunt has forbid\\nme holding any correspondence whatever, with\\nany one, lest, she says, it should occasion an\\nobstacle to the great views she has for my ad-\\nvantage. No person is allowed to see me at\\nthe grate but herself, and an old nobleman,\\none of her friends, who, she savs, is much", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0154.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 141\\npleased with me. I am sure I am not at all so\\nwith him, nor should I, even if it were possible\\nfor me to be pleased with any one at present.\\nI live in all the splendor of affluence, and\\nhave not a sou at my disposal. They say I\\nmight make an improper use of money. Even\\nmy clothes belong to my femmes de chambre,\\nwho quarrel about them before I have left them\\noff. In the midst of riches I am poorer than\\nwhen I lived with you for I have nothing to\\ngive away. When I found that the great ac-\\ncomplishments they taught me would not pro-\\ncure me the power of doing the smallest good,\\nI had recourse to my needle, of which happily\\nyou had taught me the use. I send several\\npairs of stockings of my own making for you\\nand my mamma Margaret, a cap for Domingo,\\nand one of my red handkerchiefs for Mary. I\\nalso send with this packet some kernels, and\\nseeds of various kinds of fruits which I gath-\\nered in the abbey park during my hours of rec-\\nreation. I have also sent a few seeds of violets,\\ndaisies, buttercups, poppies and scabious,\\nwhich I picked up in the fields. There are\\nmuch more beautiful flowers in the meadows of\\nthis country than in ours, but nobody cares for\\nthem. I am sure that you and my mamma\\nMargaret will be better pleased with this bag", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0155.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "142 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nof seeds, than you were with the bag of pias-\\ntres, which was the cause of our separation and\\nof my tears. It will give me great delight if\\nyou should one day see apple-trees growing by\\nthe side of our plantains, and elms blending\\ntheir foliage with that of our cocoa-trees. You\\nwill fancy yourself in Normandy, which you\\nlove so much.\\nYou desired me to relate to you my joys\\nand my griefs. I have no joys far from you.\\nAs for my griefs, I endeavor to soothe them\\nby reflecting that I am in the situation in which\\nit was the will of God that you should place\\nme. But my greatest affliction is, that no one\\nhere speaks to me of you, and that I cannot\\nspeak of you to any one. My femmes de\\nchambre, or rather those of my aunt, for they\\nbelong more to her than to me, told me the\\nother day, when I wished to turn the conver-\\nsation upon the objects most dear to me: Re-\\nmember, mademoiselle, that you are a French\\nwoman, and must forget that land of savages.\\nAh! sooner will I forget myself, than forget\\nthe spot on which I was born and where you\\ndwell It is this country which is to me a land\\nof savages, for I live alone, having no one to\\nwhom I can impart those feelings of tenderness", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0156.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 143\\nfor you which I shall bear with me to the grave.\\nI am,\\nMy dearest and beloved mother,\\nYour affectionate and dutiful daughter,\\nVirginie de la Tour.\\nI recommend to your goodness Mary and\\nDomingo, who took so much care of my in-\\nfancy caress Fidele for me, who found me in\\nthe wood.\\nPaul was astonished that Virginia had not\\nsaid one word of him, she, who had not for-\\ngotten even the house-dog. But he was not\\naware that, however long a woman s letter\\nmay be, she never fails to leave her dearest\\nsentiments for the end.\\nIn a postscript, Virginia particularly recom-\\nmended to Paul s attention two kinds of seed,\\nthose of the violet and the scabious. She\\ngave him some instructions upon the natural\\ncharacters of these flowers, and the spots most\\nproper for their cultivation. The violet, she\\nsaid, produces a little flower of a dark purple\\ncolor, which delights to conceal itself beneath\\nthe bushes but it is soon discovered by its\\nwide-spreading perfume. She desired that\\nthese seeds might be sown by the border of\\nthe fountain, at the foot of her cocoa- tree.\\nThe scabious/ she added, produces a beau-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0157.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "144 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\ntiful flower of a pale blue, and a black groun\\nspotted with white. You might fancy it was\\nin mourning; and for this reason it is also\\ncalled the widow s flower. It grows best in\\nbleak spots, beaten by the winds. She beg-\\nged him to sow this upon the rock where she\\nhad spoken to him at night for the last time,\\nand that, in remembrance of her, he would\\nhenceforth give it the name of the Rock of\\nAdieus.\\nShe had put these seeds into a little purse,\\nthe tissue of which was exceedingly simple;\\nbut which appeared above all price to Paul,\\nwhen he saw on it a P and a V entwined to-\\ngether, and knew that the beautiful hair which\\nformed the cypher was the hair of Virginia.\\nThe whole family listened with tears to the\\nreading of the letter of this amiable and virtu-\\nous girl. Her mother answered it in the name\\nof the little society, desiring her to remain or\\nreturn as she thought proper: and assuring\\nher, that happiness had left their dwelling since\\nher departure, and that, for herself, she was\\ninconsolable.\\nPaul also sent her a very long letter, in which\\nhe assured her that he would arrange the garden\\nin a manner agreeable to her taste, and mingle\\ntogether in it the plants of Europe with those", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0158.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 145\\nof Africa, as she had blended their initials to-\\ngether in her work. He sent her some fruit\\nfrom the cocoa-trees of the fountain, now ar-\\nrived at maturity telling her, that he would\\nnot add any of the other productions of the\\nisland, that the desire of seeing them again\\nmight hasten her return. He conjured her to\\ncomply as soon as possible with the ardent\\nwishes of her family, and, above all, with his\\nown, since he could never hereafter taste hap-\\npiness away from her.\\nPaul sowed with a careful hand the Euro-\\npean seeds, particularly the violet and the sca-\\nbious, the flowers of which seemed to bear\\nsome analogy to the character and present sit-\\nuation of Virginia, by whom they had been so\\nespecially recommended but either they were\\ndried up in the voyage, or the climate of this\\npart of the world is unfavorable to their\\ngrowth, for a very small number of them even\\ncame up, and not one arrived at full perfection.\\nIn the meantime, envy, which ever comes to\\nembitter human happiness, particularly in the\\nFrench colonies, spread some reports in the\\nisland which gave Paul much uneasiness. The\\npassengers in the vessel which brought Vir-\\nginia s letter, asserted that she was upon the\\npoint of being married, and named the noble-\\n10 Paul and Virginia", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0159.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "146 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nman of the court to whom she was engaged.\\nSome even went so far as to declare that the\\nunion had already taken place, and that they\\nthemselves had witnessed the ceremony. Paul\\nat first despised the report, brought by a mer-\\nchant vessel, as he knew that they often spread\\nerroneous intelligence in their passage; but\\nsome of the inhabitants of the island, with\\nmalignant pity, affecting to bewail the event,\\nhe was soon led to attach some degree of belief\\nto this cruel intelligence. Besides, in some of\\nthe novels he had lately read, he had seen that\\nperfidy was treated as a subject of pleasantry;\\nand knowing that these books contained pretty\\nfaithful representations of European manners,\\nhe feared that the heart of Virginia was cor-\\nrupted, and had forgotten its former engage-\\nments. Thus his new acquirements had already\\nonly served to render him more miserable and\\nhis apprehensions were much increased by the\\ncircumstance, that though several ships touched\\nhere from Europe, within the six months im-\\nmediately following the arrival of her letter,\\nnot one of them brought any tidings of Vir-\\nginia.\\nThis unfortunate young man, with a heart\\ntorn by the most cruel agitation, often came to\\nvisit me, in the hope of confirming or banishing", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0160.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 147\\nhis uneasiness, by my experience of the\\nworld.\\nI live, as I have already told you, a league\\nand a half from this point, upon the banks of\\na little river which glides along the Sloping\\nMountain there I lead a solitary life, without\\nwife, children, or slaves.\\nAfter having enjoyed, and lost the rare\\nfelicity of living with a congenial mind, the\\nstate of life which appears the least wretched\\nis doubtless that of solitude. Every man who\\nhas much cause of complaint against his fellow-\\ncreatures seeks to be alone. It is also remarkable\\nthat all those nations which have been brought\\nto wretchedness by their opinions, their man-\\nners, or their forms of government, have pro-\\nduced numerous classes of citizens altogether\\ndevoted to solitude and celibacy. Such were\\nthe Egyptians in their decline, and the Greeks\\nof the Lower Empire and such in our days\\nare the Indians, the Chinese, the modern\\nGreeks, the Italians, and the greater part of\\nthe eastern and southern nations of Europe.\\nSolitude, by removing men from the miseries\\nwhich follow in the train of social intercourse,\\nbrings them in some degree back to the unso-\\nphisticated enjoyment of nature. In the midst\\nof modern society, broken up by innumerable", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0161.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "148 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nprejudices, the mind is in a constant turmoil of\\nagitation. It is incessantly revolving in itself\\na thousand tumultuous and contradictory opin-\\nions, by which the members of an ambitious\\nand miserable circle seek to raise themselves\\nabove each other. But in solitude the soul lays\\naside the morbid illusions which troubled her,\\nand resumes the pure consciousness of herself,\\nof nature, and of its Author, as the muddy\\nwater of a torrent which has ravaged the\\nplains, coming to rest, and diffusing itself over\\nsome low grounds out of its course, deposits\\nthere the slime it has taken up, and resuming\\nits wonted transparency, reflects, with its own\\nshores, the verdure of the earth and the light\\nof heaven. Thus does solitude recruit the\\npowers of the body as well as those of the mind.\\nIt is among hermits that are found the men\\nwho carry human existence to its extreme\\nlimits; such are the Bramins of India. In\\nbrief, I consider solitude so necessary to happi-\\nness, even in the world itself, that it appears\\nto me impossible to derive lasting pleasure\\nfrom any pursuit whatever, or to regulate our\\nconduct by any stable principle, if we do not\\ncreate for ourselves a mental void, whence our\\nown views rarely emerge, and into which the\\nopinions of others never enter. I do not mean", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0162.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 149\\nto say that man ought to live absolutely alone\\nhe is connected by his necessities with all man-\\nkind his labors are due to man and he owes\\nsomething too to the rest of nature. But, as God\\nhas given to each of us organs perfectly adapted\\nto the elements of the globe on which we\\nlive, feet for the soil, lungs for the air, eyes\\nfor the light, without power of changing the\\nuse of any of these faculties, he has reserved\\nfor himself, as the Author of life, that which\\nis its chief organ, the heart.\\nI thus passed my days far from mankind,\\nwhom I wished to serve, and by whom I have\\nbeen persecuted. After having traveled over\\nmany countries of Europe, and some parts of\\nAmerica and Africa, I at length pitched my\\ntent in this thinly peopled island, allured by its\\nmild climate and its solitudes. A cottage\\nwhich I built in the woods, at the foot of a\\ntree, a little field which I cleared with my own\\nhands, a river which glides before my door,\\nsuffice for my wants and for my pleasures. I\\nblend with these enjoyments the perusal of\\nsome chosen books, which teach me to become\\nbetter. They make that world, which I have\\nabandoned, still contribute something to my\\nappiness. They lay before me pictures of\\nhose passions which render its inhabitants so", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0163.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "150 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nmiserable and in the comparison I am thus led\\nto make between their lot and my own, I feel a\\nkind of negative enjoyment. Like a man saved\\nfrom a shipwreck, and thrown upon a rock, I\\ncontemplate, from my solitude, the storms\\nwhich rage through the rest of the world and\\nmy repose seems more profound from the dis-\\ntant sound of the tempest. As men have\\nceased to fall in my way; I no longer view\\nthem with aversion; I only pity them. If\\nI sometimes fall in with an unfortunate\\nbeing, I try to help him by my counsels, as a\\npasser-by on the brink of a torrent extends his\\nhand to save a wretch from drowning. But I\\nhave hardly ever found but the innocent\\nattentive to my voice. Nature calls the major-\\nity of men to her in vain. Each of them forms\\nan image of her for himself, and invests her\\nwith his own passions. He pursues during\\nthe whole of his life this vain phantom, which\\nleads him astray; and he afterwards complains\\nto Heaven of the misfortunes which he has\\nthus created for himself. Among the many\\nchildren of misfortune whom I have endeav-\\nored to lead back to the enjoyments of nature,\\nI have not found one but was intoxicated with\\nhis own miseries. They have listened to me at g\\nfirst with attention, in the hope that I could n", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0164.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 151\\nteach them how to acquire glory or fortune,\\nbut when they found that I only wished to\\ninstruct them how to dispense with these chi-\\nmeras, their attention has been converted into\\npity, because I did not prize their miserable\\nhappiness. They blamed my solitary life they\\nalleged that they alone w r ere useful to men, and\\nthey endeavored to draw me into their vortex.\\nBut if I communicate with all, I lay myself\\nopen to none. It is often sufficient for me to\\nserve as a lesson to myself. In my present\\ntranquility, I pass in review the agitating pur-\\nsuits of my past life, to which I formerly\\nattached so much value, patronage, fortune,\\nreputation, pleasure, and the opinions which\\nare ever at strife over all the earth. I com-\\npare the men whom I have seen disputing furi-\\nously over these vanities, and who are no more,\\nto the tiny waves of my rivulet, which break\\nin foam against its rocky bed, and disappear,\\nnever to return. As for me, I suffer myself to\\nfloat calmly down the stream of time to the\\nshoreless ocean of futurity; while, in the con-\\ntemplation of the present harmony of nature,\\nI elevate my soul towards its supreme Author,\\nand hope for a more happy lot in another state\\nof existence.\\nAlthough you cannot descry from my her-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0165.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "152 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nmitage, situated in the midst of a forest, that\\nimmense variety of objects which this elevated\\nspot presents, the grounds are disposed with\\npeculiar beauty, at least to one who, like me,\\nprefers the seclusion of a home scene to great\\nand extensive prospects. The river which\\nglides before my door passes in a straight line\\nacross the woods, looking like a long canal\\nshaded by all kinds of trees. Among them are\\nthe gum tree, the ebony tree, and that which\\nis here called bois de pomme, with olive and\\ncinnamon-wood trees while in some parts the\\ncabbage-palm trees raise their naked stems\\nmore than a hundred feet high, their summits\\ncrowned with a cluster of leaves, and towering\\nabove the woods like one forest piled upon\\nanother. Lianas, of various foliage, intertwin-\\ning themselves among the trees, form, here,\\narcades of foliage, there, long canopies of\\nverdure. Most of these trees shed aromatic\\nodors so powerful, that the garments of a\\ntraveler, who has passed through the forest,\\noften retain for hours the most delicious\\nfragrance. In the season when they produce\\ntheir lavish blossoms, they appear as if half-\\ncovered with snow. Towards the end of sum-\\nmer, various kinds of foreign birds hasten,\\nimpelled by some inexplicable instinct, from", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0166.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 153\\nunknown regions on the other side of immense\\noceans, to feed upon the grain and other veg-\\netable productions of the island and the bril-\\nliancy of their plumage forms a striking con-\\ntrast to the more somber tints of the foliage,\\nembrowned by the sun. Among these are var-\\nious kinds of paroquets, and the blue pigeon,\\ncalled here the pigeon of Holland. Monkeys,\\nthe domestic inhabitants of our forests, sport\\nupon the dark branches of the trees, from\\nwhich they are easily distinguished by their\\ngray and greenish skin, and their black visages.\\nSome hang, suspended by the tail, and swing\\nthemselves in air; others leap from branch to\\nbranch, bearing their young in their arms.\\nThe murderous gun has never affrighted these\\npeaceful children of nature. You hear noth-\\ning but sounds of joy, the warblings and\\nunknown notes of birds from the countries of\\nthe south, repeated from a distance by the\\nechoes of the forest. The river, which pours,\\nin foaming eddies, over a bed of rocks, through\\nthe midst of the woods, reflects here and there\\nupon its limpid waters their venerable masses\\nof verdure and of shade, along with the sports\\nof their happy inhabitants. About a thousand\\npaces from thence it forms several cascades,\\nclear as crystal in their fall, but broken at the", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0167.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "154 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nbottom into frothy surges. Innumerable con-\\nfused sounds issue from these watery tumults,\\nwhich, borne by the winds across the forest,\\nnow sink in distance, now all at once swell out,\\nbooming on the ear like the bells of a cathe-\\ndral. The air, kept ever in motion by the run-\\nning water, preserves upon the banks of the\\nriver, amid all the summer heats, a freshness\\nand verdure rarely found in this island, even\\non the summits of the mountains.\\nAt some distance from this place is a rock,\\nplaced far enough from the cascade to prevent\\nthe ear from being deafened with the noise of\\nits waters, and sufficiently near for the enjoy-\\nment of seeing it, of feeling its coolness, and\\nhearing its gentle murmurs. Thither, amidst\\nthe heats of summer, Madame de la Tour,\\nMargaret, Virginia, Paul and myself, some-\\ntimes repaired, to dine beneath the shadow of\\nthis rock. Virginia, who always, in her most\\nordinary actions, was mindful of the good of\\nothers, never ate of any fruit in the fields with-\\nout planting the seed or kernel in the ground.\\n4 From this, said she, trees will come, which\\nwill yield their fruit to some traveler, or at\\nleast to some bird. One day, having eaten of\\nthe papaw fruit at the foot of that rock, she\\nplanted the seeds on the spot. Soon after, sev-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0168.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 155\\neral papaw trees sprang up, among which was\\none with female blossoms, that is to say, a\\nfruit-bearing tree. This tree at the time of\\nVirginia s departure, was scarcely as high as\\nher knee but, as it is a plant of rapid growth\\nin the course of two years it had gained the\\nheight of twenty feet, and the upper part of\\nits stem was encircled by several rows of ripe\\nfruit. Paul, wandering accidentally to the\\nspot, was struck with delight at seeing this\\nlofty tree, which had been planted by his\\nbeloved; but the emotion was transient, and\\ninstantly gave place to a deep melancholy, at\\nthis evidence of her long absence. The objects\\nwhich are habitually before us do not bring to\\nour minds an adequate idea of the rapidity of\\nlife; they decline insensibly with ourselves:\\nbut it is those we behold again, after having\\nfor some years lost sight of them, that most\\npowerfully impress us with a feeling of the\\nswiftness with which the tide of life flows on.\\nPaul was no less overwhelmed and affected at\\nthe sight of this great papaw tree, loaded with\\nfruit, than is the traveler when, after a long\\nabsence from his own country, he finds his con-\\ntemporaries no more, but their children, whom\\nhe left at the breast, themselves now become\\nfathers of families. Paul sometimes thought", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0169.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "156 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nof cutting down the tree, which recalled to\\nsensibility the distracting remembrance of Vir^\\nginia s prolonged absence. At other times,\\ncontemplating it as a monument of her benev-\\nolence, he kissed its trunk, and apostrophized\\nit in terms of the most passionate regret.\\nIndeed, I have myself gazed upon it with more\\nemotion and more veneration than upon the\\ntriumphal arches of Rome. May nature,\\nwhich every day destroys the monuments of\\nkingly ambition, multiply in our forests those\\nwhich testify the beneficence of a poor young\\ngirl!\\nAt the foot of this papaw tree I was always\\nsure to meet with Paul when he came into our\\nneighborhood. One day, I found him there\\nabsorbed in melancholy, and a conversation\\ntook place between us, which I will relate to\\nyou, if I do not weary you too much by my\\nlong digressions they are perhaps pardonable\\nto my age and to my last friendships. I will\\nrelate it to you in the form of a dialogue, that\\nyou may form some idea of the natural good\\nsense of this young man. You will easily dis-\\ntinguish the speaker, from the character of his\\nquestions and of my answers.\\nPaul. I am very unhappy. Mademoiselle\\nde la Tour has now been gone two years and", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0170.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 157\\neight months, arid we have heard no tidings\\nof her for eight months and a half. She is rich,\\nand I am poor; she has forgotten me. I have\\na great mind to follow her. I will go to France\\nI will serve the king; I will make my fortune;\\nand, then, Mademoiselle de la Tour s aunt will\\nbestow her niece upon me when I shall have\\nbecome a great lord.\\nThe Old Man. But, my dear friend, have\\nnot you told me that you are not of noble\\nbirth?\\nPaul. My mother has told me so; but, as\\nfor myself, I know not what noble birth means.\\nI never perceived that I had less than others,\\nor that others had more than I.\\nThe Old Man. Obscure birth, in France,\\nshuts every door of access to great employ-\\nments; nor can you even be received among\\nany distinguished body of men, if you labor\\nunder this disadvantage.\\nPaul. You have often told me that it was\\none source of the greatness of France that her\\nhumblest subject might attain the highest\\nhonors; and you have cited to me many in-\\nstances of celebrated men who, born in a mean\\ncondition, had conferred honor upon their\\ncountry. It was your wish, then, by conceal-\\ning the truth, to stimulate my ardor?", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0171.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "158 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nThe Old Man. Never, my son, would I\\nlower it. I told you the truth with regard to\\nthe past; but now, everything has undergone\\na great change. Everything in France is now\\nto be obtained by interest alone every place\\nand employment is now become as it were the\\npatrimony of a small number of families, or is\\ndivided among public bodies. The king is a\\nsun, and the nobles and great corporate bodies\\nsurround him like so many clouds it is almost\\nimpossible for any of his rays to reach you.\\nFormerly, under less exclusive administrations\\nsuch phenomena have been seen. Then, talents\\nand merit showed themselves everywhere, as\\nnewly cleared lands are always loaded with\\nabundance. But great kings, who can really\\nform a just estimate of men, and choose them\\nwith judgment, are rare. The ordinary race of\\nmonarchs allow themselves to be guided by the\\nnobles and people who surround them.\\nPaul. But perhaps I shall find one of these\\nnobles to protect me,\\nThe Old Man. To gain the protection of the\\ngreat you must lend yourself to their ambition,\\nand administer to their pleasures. You would\\nnever succeed for, in addition to your obscura\\nbirth, you have too much integrity.\\nPaul. But I will perform such courageous", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0172.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 159\\nactions, I will be so faithful to my word, so ex-\\nact in the performance of my duties, so zealous\\nand so constant in my friendships, that I will\\nrender myself worthy to be adopted by some\\none of them. In the ancient histories, you\\nhave made me read, I have seen many exam-\\nples of such adoptions.\\nThe Old Man. Oh, my young friend\\namong the Greeks and Romans, even in their\\ndecline, the nobles had some respect for vir-\\ntue; but out of all the immense number of\\nmen, sprung from the mass of the people, in\\nFrance, who have signalized themselves in\\nevery possible manner, I do not recollect a sin-\\ngle instance of one being adopted by any great\\nfamily. If it were not for our kings, virtue,\\nin our country would be eternally condemned\\nas plebeian. As I said before, the monarch\\nsometimes, when he perceives it, renders to it\\ndue honor but in the present day, the distinc-\\ntions which should be bestowed on merit are\\ngenerally to be obtained by money alone.\\nPaul. If I cannot find a nobleman to adopt\\nme, I will seek to please some public body. I\\nwill espouse its interests and its opinions I will\\nmake myself beloved by it.\\nThe Old Man. \u00e2\u0080\u0094You will act then like other", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0173.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "160 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nmen? you will renounce your conscience to\\nobtain a fortune?\\nPaul. Oh, no! I will never lend myself to\\nanything but the truth.\\nThe Old Man. Instead of making yourself\\nbeloved, you would become an object of dislike.\\nBesides, public bodies have never taken much\\ninterest in the discovery of truth. All opin-\\nions are nearly alike to ambitious men, pro-\\nvided only that they themselves can gain their\\nends.\\nPaul. How unfortunate I am! Everything\\nbars my progress. I am condemned to pass\\nmy life in ignoble toil, far from Virginia.\\nAs he said this he sighed deeply.\\nThe Old Man. Let God be your patron, and\\nmankind the public body you would serve.\\nBe constantly attached to them both. Fam-\\nilies, corporations, nations and kings have, all\\nof them, their prejudices and their passions; it\\nis often necessary to serve them by the practice\\nof vice God and mankind at large require only\\nthe exercise of the virtues.\\nBut why do you wish to be distinguished from\\nother men? It is hardly a natural sentiment,\\nfor if all men possessed it, every one would be\\nat constant strife with his neighbor. Be satis-\\nfied with fulfilling your duty in the station in", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0174.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 161\\nwhich Providence has placed you be grateful\\nfor your lot, which permits you to enjoy the\\nblessing of a quiet conscience, and which does\\nnot compel you, like the great, to let your hap-\\npiness rest on the opinion of the little, or, like\\nthe little, to cringe to the great, in order to\\nobtain the means of existence. You are now\\nplaced in a country and a condition in which\\nyou are not reduced to deceive or flatter any-\\none, or debase yourself, as the greater part of\\nthose who seek their fortune in Europe are\\nobliged to do in which the exercise of no vir-\\ntue is forbidden you in which you may be,\\nwith impunity, good, sincere, well-informed,\\npatient, temperate, chaste, indulgent to others*\\nfaults, pious, and no shaft of ridicule be aimed\\nat you to destroy your wisdom, as yet only in\\nits bud. Heaven has given you liberty, health,\\na good conscience, and friends; kings them-\\nselves, whose favor you desire, are not so happy.\\nPaul. Ah! I only want to have Virginia\\nwith me: without her I have nothing, with\\nher, I should possess all my desire. She alone\\nis to me birth, glory, and fortune. But, since\\nher relation will only give her to some one with\\na great name, I will study. By the aid of\\nstudy and of books, learning and celebrity are\\nto be attained. I will become a man of science\\n11 Paul and Virginia", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0175.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "162 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nI will render my knowledge useful to the ser-\\nvice of my country, without injuring any one,\\nor owning dependence on any one. I will be-\\ncome celebrated, and my glory shall be achieved\\nonly by myself.\\nThe Old Man. My son, talents are a gift yet\\nmore rare than either birth or riches, and un-\\ndoubtedly they are a greater good than either,\\nsince they can never be taken away from us,\\nand that they obtain for us everywhere public\\nesteem. But they may be said to be worth all\\nthat they cost us. They are seldom acquired\\nbut by every species of privation, by the pos-\\nsession of exquisite sensibility, which often\\nproduces inward unhappiness, and which ex-\\nposes us without to the malice and persecutions\\nof our contemporaries. The lawyer envies\\nnot, in France, the glory of the soldier, nor\\ndoes the soldier envy that of the naval officer\\nbut they will all oppose you, and bar your\\nprogress to distinction, because your assump-\\ntion of superior ability will wound the self-love\\nof them all. You say that you will do good to\\nmen; but recollect, that he who makes the\\nearth produce a single ear of corn more, ren-\\nders them a greater service than he who writes\\na book.\\nPaul. Oh! she, then, who planted this pa-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0176.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 163\\npaw tree, has made a more useful and more\\ngrateful present to the inhabitants of these\\nforests than if she had given them a whole\\nlibrary.\\nSo saying, he threw his arms around the tree,\\nand kissed it with transport.\\nThe Old Man.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The best of books,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 that\\nwhich preaches nothing but equality, brotherly\\nlove, charity, and peace, the Gospel, has\\nserved as a pretext, during many centuries,\\nfor Europeans to let loose all their fury. How\\nmany tyrannies, both public and private, are\\nstill practised in its name on the face of the\\nearth! After this, who will dare to flatter him-\\nself that anything he can write will be of ser-\\nvice to his fellow-men? Remember the fate of\\nmost of the philosophers who have preached to\\nthem wisdom. Homer, who clothed it in such\\nnoble verse, asked for alms all his life. Soc-\\nrates, whose conversation and example gave\\nsuch admirable lessons to the Athenians, was\\nsentenced by them to be poisoned. His sub-\\nlime disciple, Plato, was delivered over to slav-\\nery by the order of the very prince who pro-\\ntected him; and, before them, Pythagoras,\\nwhose humanity extended even to animals, was\\nburned alive by the Crotoniates. What do I\\nsay? many even of these illustrious names", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0177.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "164 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nhave descended to us disfigured by some traits\\nof satire by which they became characterized,\\nhuman ingratitude taking pleasure in thus rec-\\nognizing them and if, in the crowd, the glory\\nof some names is come down to us without spot\\nor blemish, we shall find that they who have\\nborne them have lived far from the society of\\ntheir contemporaries like those statues which\\nare found entire beneath the soil in Greece and\\nItaly, and which, by being hidden in the\\nbosom of the earth, have escaped uninjured,\\nfrom the fury of the barbarians.\\nYou see, then, that to acquire the glory\\nwhich a turbulent literary career can give you,\\nyou must not only be virtuous, but ready, if\\nnecessary, to sacrifice life itself. But, after\\nall, do not fancy that the great in France\\ntrouble themselves about such glory as this.\\nLittle do they care for literary men, whose\\nknowledge brings them neither honors, nor\\npower, nor even admission at court. Persecu-\\ntion, it is true, is rarely practised in this age,\\nbecause it is habitually indifferent to every-\\nthing except wealth and luxury but knowledge\\nand virtue no longer lead to distinction, since\\neverything in the state is to be purchased with\\nmoney. Formerly, men of letters were certain\\nof reward by some place in the church, the", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0178.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA 165\\nmagistracy, or the administration; now they\\nare considered good for nothing but to write\\nbooks. But this fruit of their minds, little\\nvalued by the world at large, is still worthy of\\nits celestial origin. For these books is reserved\\nthe privilege of shedding luster on obscure\\nvirtue, of consoling the unhappy, of enlighten-\\ning nations, and of telling the truth even to\\nkings. This is, unquestionably, the most\\naugust commission with which Heaven can\\nhonor a mortal upon this earth. Where is the\\nauthor who would not be consoled for the in-\\njustice or contempt of those who are the dis-\\npensers of the ordinary gifts of fortune, when\\nhe reflects that his work may pass from age to\\nage, from nation to nation, opposing a barrier\\nto error and to tyranny and that, from amidst\\nthe obscurity in which he has lived, there will\\nshine forth a glory which will efface that of the\\ncommon herd of monarchs, the monuments of\\nwhose deeds perish in oblivion, notwithstand-\\ning the flatterers who erect and magnify them?\\nPaul. Ah! I am only covetous of glory to\\nbestow it on Virginia, and render her dear to\\nthe whole world. But can you, who know so\\nmuch, tell me whether we shall ever be mar-\\nried? I should like to be a very learned man,", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0179.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "166 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nif only for the sake of knowing what will come\\nto pass.\\nThe Old Man. Who would live, my son, if\\nthe future were revealed to him? when a\\nsingle anticipated misfortune gives us so much\\nuseless uneasiness when the foreknowledge\\nof one certain calamity is enough to embitter\\nevery day that precedes it! It is better not to\\npry too curiously, even into the things which\\nsurround us. Heaven, which has given us the\\npower of reflection to foresee our necessities,\\ngave us also those very necessities to set limits\\nto its exercise.\\nPaul. You tell me that with money people\\nin Europe acquire dignities and honors. I will\\ngo, then, to enrich myself in Bengal, and after-\\nwards proceed to Paris, and marry Virginia.\\nI will embark at once.\\nThe Old Man. What! would you leave her\\nmother and yours?\\nPaul. Why, you yourself have advised my\\ngoing to the Indies.\\nThe Old Man. Virginia was then here but\\nyou are now the only means of support both\\nof her mother and of your own.\\nPaul. Virginia will assist them by means of I\\nher rich relation.\\nThe Old Man. The rich care little for those\\ni", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0180.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 167\\nfrom whom no honor is reflected upon them-\\nselves in the world. Many of them have rela-\\ntions much more to be pitied than Madame de\\nla Tour, who, for want of their assistance, sac-\\nrifice their liberty for bread, and pass their\\nlives immured within the walls of a convent.\\nPaul. Oh, what a country is Europe! Vir-\\nginia must come back here. What need has\\nshe of a rich relation? She was so happy in\\nthese huts; she looked so beautiful and so well-\\ndressed with a red handkerchief or a few flow-\\ners around her head! Return, Virginia! leave\\nyour sumptuous mansions and your grandeur,\\nand come back to these rocks, to the shade of\\nthese woods and of our cocoa trees. Alas you\\nare perhaps even now unhappy! and he began\\nto shed tears. My father, continued he,\\nhide nothing from me if you cannot tell me\\nwhether I shall marry Virginia, tell me at\\nleast if she loves me still, surrounded as she is\\nby noblemen who speak to the king, and who\\ngo to see her.\\nThe Old Man. Oh, my dear friend! I am\\nsure, for many reasons that she loves you but\\nabove all, because she is virtuous. At these\\nwords he threw himself on my neck in a trans-\\nport of joy.\\nPaul. But do you think that the women of", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0181.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "168 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nEurope are false, as they are represented in\\nthe comedies and books which you have lent\\nme?\\nThe Old Man. TVomen are false in those\\ncountries where men are tyrants. Violence\\nalways engenders a disposition to deceive.\\nPaul. In what way can men tyranize over\\nwomen?\\nThe Old Man. In giving them in marriage\\nwithout consulting their inclinations; in unit-\\ning a young girl to an old man or a woman of\\nsensibility to a frigid and indifferent husband.\\nPaul. Why not join together those who are\\nsuited to each other, the young to the young\\nand lovers to those they love?\\nThe Old Man. Because few young men in\\nFrance have property enough to support them\\nwhen they are married, and cannot acquire it\\ntill the greater part of their life is passed.\\nWhile young, they seduce the wives of others,\\nand when they are old, they cannot secure the\\naffections of their own. At first, they them-\\nselves are deceivers: and afterwards, they are\\ndeceived in their turn. This is one of the re-\\nactions of that eternal justice, by which the\\nworld is governed; an excess on one side is\\nsure to be balanced by one on the other. Thus,\\nthe greater part of Europeans pass their lives", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0182.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "PaUi. AND VIRGINIA. 169\\nin this two-fold irregularity, which increases\\neverywhere in the same proportion that wealth\\nis accumulated in the hands of a few individu-\\nals. Society is like a garden, where shrubs\\ncannot grow if they are overshadowed by lofty\\ntrees but there is this wide difference between\\nthem, that the beauty of a garden may re-\\nsult from the admixture of a small number of\\nforest trees, while the prosperity of a state de-\\npends on the multitude and equality of its\\ncitizens, and not on the small number of very\\nrich men.\\nPaul. But where is the necessity of being\\nrich in order to marry?\\nThe Old Man. In order to pass through life\\nin abundance, without being obliged to work.\\nPaul. But why not work? I am sure I work\\nhard enough.\\nThe Old Man. In Europe, working with\\nyour hands is considered a degradation it is\\ncompared to the labor performed by a machine.\\nThe occupation of cultivating the earth is the\\nmost despised of all. Even an artisan is held\\nin more estimation than a peasant.\\nPaul. What! do you mean to say that the\\nart which furnishes food for mankind is de-\\nspised in Europe? I hardly understand you.\\nThe Old Man. Oh! it is impossible for a", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0183.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "170 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nperson educated according to nature to form an\\nidea of the depraved state of society. It is\\neasy to form a precise notion of order, but not\\nof disorder. Beauty, virtue, happiness, have\\nall their defined proportions deformity, vice,\\nand misery have none.\\nPaul. The rich then are always very happy!\\nThey meet with no obstacles to the fulfillment\\nof their wishes, and they can lavish happiness\\non those whom they love.\\nThe Old Man. Far from it, my son! They\\nare, for the most part satiated with pleasure,\\nfor this very reason, that it costs them no\\ntrouble. Have you never yourself experienced\\nhow much the pleasure of repose is increased\\nby fatigue; that of eating, by hunger; that of\\ndrinking, by thirst? The pleasure also of lov-\\ning and being loved is only to be acquired by\\ninnumerable privations and sacrifices. Wealth,\\nby anticipating all their necessities, deprives\\nits possessors of all these pleasures. To this\\nennui, consequent upon satiety, may also be\\nadded the pride which springs from their opu-\\nlence, and which is wounded by the most trifling\\nprivation, when the greatest enjoyments have\\nceased to charm. The perfume of a thousand\\nroses gives pleasure but for a moment but the\\npain occasioned by a single thorn endures long", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0184.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 171\\nafter the infliction of the wound. A single evil\\nin the midst of their pleasures is to the rich man\\nlike a thorn among flowers to the poor, on the\\ncontrary, one pleasure amidst all their troubles\\nis a flower among a wilderness of thorns they\\nhave a most lively enjoyment of it. The effect\\nof everything is increased by contrast nature\\nhas balanced all things. Which condition,\\nafter all, do you consider preferable, to have\\nscarcely anything to hope, and everything to\\nfear, or to have everything to hope and nothing\\nto fear? The former condition is that of the\\nrich, the latter, that of the poor. But either\\nof these extremities is with difficulty supported\\nby man, whose happiness consists in a middle\\nstation of life, in union with virtue.\\nPaul. What do you understand by virtue?\\nThe Old Man. To you, my son, who sup-\\nport your family by your labor, it need hardly\\nbe defined. Virtue consists in endeavoring to\\ndo all the good we can to others, with an ulti-\\nmate intention of pleasing God alone.\\nPaul. Oh! how virtuous, then, is Virginia!\\nVirtue led her to seek for riches, that she might\\npractice benevolence. Virtue induced her to\\nquit this island, and virtue will bring her back\\nto it.\\nThe idea of her speedy return firing the ima-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0185.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "172 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\ngination of this young man, all his anxieties\\nsuddenly vanished. Virginia, he was persuaded,\\nhad not written, because she would soon arrive.\\nIt took so little time to come from Europe with\\na fair wind Then he enumerated the vessels\\nwhich had made this passage of four thousand\\nfive hundred leagues in less than three months;\\nand perhaps the vessel in which Virginia had\\nembarked might not be more than two. Ship-\\nbuilders were now so ingenious, and sailors\\nwere so expert He then talked to me of the\\narrangements he intended to make for her\\nreception, of the new house he would build for\\nher, and of the pleasures and surprises which\\nhe would contrive for her every day, when she\\nwas his wife. His wife The idea filled him\\nwith ecstasy. At least, my dear father,\\nsaid he, you shall then do no more work than\\nyou please. As Virginia will be rich, we shall\\nhave plenty of negroes, and they shall -work\\nfor you. You shall always live with us, and\\nhave no other care than to amuse yourself and\\nbe happy; and, his heart throbbing with\\njoy, he flew to communicate these exquisite\\nanticipations to his family.\\nIn a short time, however, these enchanting\\nhopes were succeeded by the most cruel appre-\\nhensions. It is always the effect of violent", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0186.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 173\\npassions to throw the soul into opposite ex-\\ntremes. Paul returned the next day to my\\ndwelling, overwhelmed with melancholy, and\\nsaid to me, I hear nothing from Virginia.\\nHad she left Europe she would have written\\nme word of her departure. Ah the reports\\nwhich I have heard concerning her are but too\\nwell founded. Her aunt has married her to\\nsome great lord. She, like others, has been\\nundone by the love of riches. In those books\\nwhich paint women so well, virtue is treated\\nbut as a subject of romance. If Virginia had\\nbeen virtuous, she would never have forsaken\\nher mother and me. I do nothing but think of\\nher, and she has forgotten me. I am wretched\\nand she is diverting herself. The thought dis-\\ntracts me; I cannot bear myself! Would to\\nHeaven that war were declared in India! I\\nwould go there and die.\\n44 My son, I answered, that courage which\\nprompts us on to court death is but the cour-\\nage of a moment, and is often excited only by\\nthe vain applause of men, or by the hope of\\nposthumous renown. There is another descrip-\\ntion of courage rarer and more necessary,\\nwhich enables us to support, without witness\\nand without applause, the vexations of life;\\nthis virtue is patience. Relying for support,", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0187.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "174 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nnot upon the opinions of others, or the impulse\\nof the passions, but upon the will of God,\\npatience is the courage of virtue.\\nAh! cried he, I am then without virtue\\nEverything overwhelms me and drives me to\\ndespair. Equal, constant, and invariable\\nvirtue, M I replied, belongs not toman. In\\nthe midst of the many passions which agitate\\nus, our reason is disordered and obscure but\\nthere is an ever-burning lamp, at which we\\ncan rekindle its flame and that is, literature.\\nLiterature, my dear son, is the gift of Heav-\\nen, a ray of that wisdom by which the uni-\\nverse is governed, and which man, inspired by\\na celestial intelligence, has drawn down to\\nearth. Like the rays of the sun, it enlightens\\nus, it rejoices us, it warms us with a heavenly\\nflame, and seems, in some sort, like the element\\nof fire, to bend all nature to our use. By its\\nmeans we are enabled to bring around us all\\nthings, all places, all men, and all times. It\\nassists us to regulate our manners and our life.\\nBy its aid, too, our passions are calmed, vice is\\nsuppressed, and virtue encouraged by the mem-\\norable examples of great and good men which\\nit has handed down to us, and whose time-hon-\\nored images it ever brings before our eyes.\\nLiterature is a daughter of Heaven who has", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0188.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 175\\ndescended upon earth to soften and to charm\\naway all the evils of the human race. The\\ngreatest writers have ever appeared in the\\nworst times,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in times in which society can\\nhardly be held together, the times of barba-\\nrism and every species of depravity. My son,\\nliterature has consoled an infinite number of\\nmen more unhappy than yourself Xenophon,\\nbanished from his country after having saved\\nto her ten thousand of her sons; Scipio Afri-\\ncanus, wearied to death by the calumnies of the\\nRomans Lucullus, tormented by their cabals\\nand Catinat, by the ingratitude of a court.\\nThe Greeks, with their never-failing ingenuity,\\nassigned to each of the Muses a portion of the\\ngreat circle of human intelligence for her espe-\\ncial superintendence; we ought in the same\\nmanner, to give up to them the regulation of\\nour passions, to bring them under proper re-\\nstraint. Literature in this imaginative guise,\\nwould thus fulfill, in relation to the powers of\\nthe soul, the same functions as the Hours, who\\nyoked and conducted the chariot of the Sun.\\n44 Have recourse to your books, then, my son.\\nThe wise men who have written before our\\ndays are travelers who have preceded us in the\\npaths of misfortune, and who stretch out a\\nfriendly hand towards us, and invite us to join", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0189.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "176 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\ntheir society, when we are abandoned by\\neverything else. A good book is a good\\nfriend.\\nAh! cried Paul, I stood in no need of\\nbooks when Virginia was here, and she had\\nstudied as little as myself; but when she looked\\nat me, and called me her friend, I could not\\nfeel unhappy.\\nUndoubtedly, said I, there is no friend\\nso agreeable as a mistress by whom we are be-\\nloved. There is, moreover, in woman a liveli-\\nness and gayety, which powerfully tend to dis-\\nsipate the melancholy feelings of a man her\\npresence drives away the dark phantoms of\\nimagination produced by over-reflection. Upon\\nher countenance sit soft attractions and tender\\nconfidence. What joy is not heightened when\\nit is shared by her? What brow is not unbent\\nby her smiles? What anger can resist her tears?\\nVirginia will return with more philosophy than\\nyou, and will be quite surprised to find the\\ngarden so unfinished she who could think of\\nits embellishments in spite of all the persecu-\\ntions of her aunt, and when far from her\\nmother and from you.\\nThe idea of Virginia s speedy return reani-\\nmated the drooping spirits of her lover, and he\\nresumed his rural occupations, happy amidst", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0190.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 177\\nhis toils, in the reflection that they would soon\\nfind a termination so dear to the wishes of his\\nheart.\\nOne morning, at break of day (it was the\\n24th of December, 1744), Paul, when he arose,\\nperceived a white flag hoisted upon the Moun-\\ntain of Discovery. This flag he knew to be the\\nsignal of a vessel descried at sea. He instantly\\nflew to the town to learn if this vessel brought\\nany tidings of Virginia, and waited there till\\nthe return of the pilot, who was gone, accord-\\ning to custom, to board the ship. The pilot\\ndid not return till the evening, when he\\nbrought the Governor information that the sig-\\nnaled vessel was the Saint-Geran, of seven\\nhundred tons burden, and commanded by a\\ncaptain of the name of Aubin; that she was\\nnow four leagues out at sea, but would prob-\\nably anchor at Port Louis the following after-\\nnoon, if the wind became fair at present there\\nwas a calm. The pilot then handed to the\\nGovernor a number of letters which the Saint-\\nGeran had brought from France, among which\\nwas one addressed to Madame de la Tour, in\\nthe handwriting of Virginia. Paul seized upon\\nthe letter, kissed it with transports, and plac-\\ning it in his bosom, flew to the plantation. No\\nsooner did he perceive from a distance the\\n12 Paul and Virginia", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0191.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "178 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nfamily, who were awaiting his return upon the\\nRock of Adieus, than he waved the letter aloft\\nin the air, without being able to utter a word.\\nNo sooner was the seal broken, than they all\\ncrowded round Madame de la Tour, to hear\\nthe letter read. Virginia informed her mother\\nthat she had experienced much ill-usage from\\nher aunt, who, after having in vain, urged her\\nto a marriage against her inclination, had dis-\\ninherited her, and had sent her back at a time\\nwhen she would probably reach the Mauritius\\nduring the hurricane season. In vain, she\\nadded, had she endeavored to soften her aunt,\\nby representing what she owed to her mother,\\nand to her early habits she was treated as a\\nromantic girl, whose head had been turned by\\nnovels. She could now only think of the joy\\nof again seeing and embracing her beloved\\nfamily, and would have gratified her ardent\\ndesire at once, by landing in the pilot s boat,\\nif the captain had allowed her but that he had\\nobjected, on account of the distance, and of a\\nheavy swell, which, notwithstanding the calm,\\nreigned in the open sea.\\nAs soon as the letter was finished, the whole\\nof the family, transported w T ith joy, repeatedly\\nexclaimed, Virginia is arrived! and mis-\\ntresses and servants embraced each other.", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0192.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 179\\nMadame de la Tour said to Paul, My son, go\\nand inform our neighbor of Virginia s arri-\\nval. Domingo immediately lighted a torch\\nof bois de ronde, and he and Paul bent their\\nway towards my dwelling.\\nIt was about ten o clock at night, and I was\\njust going to extinguish my lamp, and retire to\\nrest, when I perceived, through the palisades\\nround my cottage, a light in the woods. Soon\\nafter I heard the voice of Paul calling me. I\\ninstantly arose, and had hardly dressed myself,\\nwhen Paul, -almost beside himself, and panting\\nfor breath, sprang on my neck, crying, Come\\nalong, come along, Virginia is arrived. Let us\\ngo to the port the vessel will anchor at break\\nof day.\\nScarcely had he uttered the words, when we\\nset off. As we were passing through the woods\\nof the Sloping Mountain, and were already on\\nthe road which leads from the Shaddock Grove\\nto the port, I heard some one walking behind\\nus. It proved to be a negro, and he was ad-\\nvancing with hasty steps. When he had\\nreached us, I asked him whence he came, and\\nwhither he was going with such expedition.\\nHe answered, I come from that part of the\\nisland called Golden Dust and am sent to the\\nport, to inform the Governor that a ship from", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0193.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "180 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nFrance has anchored under the Isle of Amber.\\nShe is firing guns of distress, for the sea is\\nvery rough. Having said this, the man left\\nus, and pursued his journey without any fur-\\nther delay.\\nI then said to Paul, Let us go towards the\\nquarter of the Golden Dust, aad meet Virginia\\nthere. It is not more than three leagues from\\nhence. We accordingly bent our course to-\\nwards the northern part of the island. The\\nheat was suffocating. The moon had risen,\\nand was surrounded by three large black cir-\\ncles. A frightful darkness shrouded the sky\\nbut the frequent flashes of lightning discovered\\nto us long rows of thick and gloomy clouds,\\nhanging very low, and heaped together over\\nthe center of the island, being driven in with\\ngreat rapidity from the ocean, although not a\\nbreath of air was perceptible upon the land.\\nAs we walked along, we thought we heard\\npeals of thunder; but, on listening more at-\\ntentively, we perceived that it was the sound\\nof cannon at a distance, repeated by the echoes.\\nThese ominous sounds, joined to the tempest-\\nuous aspect of the heavens, made me shudder.\\nI had little doubt of their being signals of dis-\\ntress from a ship in danger. In about half and\\nhour the firing ceased, and I found the silence", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0194.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 181\\nstill more appalling than the dismal sounds\\nwhich had preceded it.\\nWe hastened on without uttering a word, or\\ndaring to communicate to each other our mu-\\ntual apprehensions. At midnight, by great ex-\\nertion, we*arrived at the sea-shore, in that part\\nof the island called Golden Dust. The billows\\nwere breaking against the beach with a horri-\\nble noise, covering the rocks and the strand\\nwith foam of a dazzling whiteness, blended\\nwith sparks of fire. By these phosphoric\\ngleams we distinguished, notwithstanding the\\ndarkness, a number of fishing canoes, drawn\\nup high upon the beach.\\nAt the entrance of a wood, a short distance\\nfrom us, we saw a fire, round which a party\\nof the inhabitants were assembled. We re-\\npaired thither, in order to rest ourselves till\\nthe morning. While we were seated near this\\nfire, one of the standers-by related, that late in\\nthe afternoon he had seen a vessel in the open\\nsea, driven towards the island by the currents\\nthat the night had hidden it from his view\\nand that two hours after sunset he had heard\\nthe firing of signal guns of distress, but that\\nthe surf was so high, that it was impossible to\\nlaunch a boat to go off to her that a short time\\nafter, he thought he perceived the glimmering", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0195.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "182 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nof the watch-lights on board the vessel, which,\\nhe feared, by its having approached so near the\\ncoast, had steered between the main land and\\nthe little island of Amber, mistaking the latter\\nfor the Point of Endeavor, near which vessels\\npass in order to gain Port Louis; and that, if\\nthis were the case, which, however, he would\\nnot take upon himself to be certain of, the ship,\\nhe thought, was in very great danger. An-\\nother islander then informed us, that he had\\nfrequently crossed the channel which separates\\nthe isle of Amber from the coast, and had\\nsounded it that the anchorage was very good,\\nand that the ship would there lie as safely as\\nin the best harbor. I would stake all I am\\nworth upon it, said he, and if I were on\\nboard, I should sleep as sound as on shore.\\nA third bystander declared that it was impos-\\nsible for the ship to enter the channel, which\\nwas scarcely navigable for a boat. He was\\ncertain, he said, that he had seen the vessel at\\nanchor beyond the isle of Amber; so that, if\\nthe wind arose in the morning, she could either\\nput to sea, or gain the harbor. Other inhab-\\nitants gave different opinions upon this subject,\\nwhich they continued to discuss in the usual\\ndesultory manner of the indolent Creoles. Paul\\nand I observed a profound silence. We re-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0196.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 183\\nmained on this spot till break of day, but the\\nweather was too hazy to admit of our distin-\\nguishing any object at sea, everything being\\ncovered with fog. All we could descry to sea-\\nward was a dark cloud, which they told us was\\nthe isle of Amber, at the distance of a quarter\\nof a league from the coast, On this gloomy\\nday we could only discern the point of land on\\nwhich we were standing, and the peaks of some\\ninland mountains, which startedout occasionally\\nfrom the midst of the clouds that hung around\\nthem.\\nAt about seven in the morning we heard the\\nsound of drums in the woods it announced the\\napproach of the Governor, Monsieur de la Bour-\\ndonnais, who soon after arrived on horseback,\\nat the head of a detachment of soldiers armed\\nwith muskets, and a crowd of islanders and\\nnegroes. He drew up his soldiers upon the\\nbeach, and ordered them to make a general\\ndischarge. This was no sooner done, than we\\nperceived a glimmering light upon the water\\nwhich was instantly followed by the report of\\na cannon. We judged that the ship was at no\\ngreat distance and all ran towards that part\\nwhence the light and sound proceeded. We\\nnow discerned through the fog the hull and\\nyards of a large vessel. We were so near to", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0197.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "184 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nher, that notwithstanding the tumult of the\\nwaves, we could distinctly hear the whistle of\\nthe boatswain, and the shouts of the sailors, who\\ncried out three times, Vive Ic Roi! this being\\nthe cry of the French in extreme danger, as\\nwell as in exuberant joy; as though they\\nwished to call their prince to their aid, or to\\ntestify to him that they are prepared to lay\\ndown their lives in his service.\\nAs soon as the Saint-Geran perceived that we\\nwere near enough to render her assistance, she\\ncontinued to fire guns regularly at intervals of\\nthree minutes. Monsieur de la Bourdonnais\\ncaused great fires to be lighted at certain dis-\\ntances upon the strand, and sent to all the\\ninhabitants of the neighborhood, in search of\\nprovisions, planks, cables, and empty barrels.\\nA number of people soon arrived, accompanied\\nby their negroes loaded with provisions and\\ncordage, which they had brought from the\\nplantations of Golden Dust, from the district of\\nLa Flaque, and from the river of the Rampart.\\nOne of the most aged of these planters,\\napproaching the Governor, said to him, We\\nhave heard all night hollow noises in the\\nmountain in the woods, the leaves of the trees\\nare shaken, although there is no wind; the\\nsea-birds seek refuge upon the land: it is cer-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0198.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 185\\ntain that all these signs announce a hurricane.\\n4 Well, my friends, answered the Governor,\\n4 we are prepared for it, and no doubt the\\nvessel is also.\\nEverything, indeed, presaged the near\\napproach of the hurricane. The center of the\\nclouds in the zenith was of a dismal black,\\nwhile their skirts were tinged with a copper-\\ncolored hue. The air resounded with the\\ncries of the tropic-birds, petrels, frigate-birds,\\nand innumerable other sea-fowl, which not-\\nwithstanding the obscurity of the atmosphere,.,\\nwere seen coming from every point of the\\nhorizon, to seek for shelter in the island.\\nTowards nine in the morning we heard in\\nthe direction of the ocean the most terrific\\nnoise, like the sound of thunder mingled with\\nthat of torrents rushing down the steeps of lofty\\nmountains. A general cry was heard of,,\\nThere is the hurricane! and the next\\nmoment a frightful gust of wind dispelled the\\nfog which covered the isle of Amber and its\\nchannel. The Saint-Geran then presented her-\\nself to our view, her deck crowded with people,\\nher yards and topmasts lowered down, and her\\nflag half-mast high, moored by four cables at\\nher bow and one at her stern. She had\\nanchored between the isle of Amber and the", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0199.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "186 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nmainland, inside the chain of reefs which\\nencircles the island, and which she had passed\\nthrough in a place where no vessel had ever\\npassed before. She presented her head to the\\nwaves that rolled in from the open sea, and as\\neach billow rushed into the narrow strait where\\nshe lay, her bow lifted to such a degree as to\\nshow her keel; and at the same moment her\\nstern, plunging into the water disappeared\\naltogether from our sight, as if it were swal-\\nlowed up by the surges. In this position,\\ndriven by the winds and waves towards the\\nshore, it was equally impossible for her to\\nreturn by the passage through which she had\\nmade her way; or, by cutting her cables, to\\nstrand herself upon the beach, from which she\\nwas separated by sandbanks and reefs of rocks.\\nEvery billow which broke upon the coast\\nadvanced roaring to the bottom of the bay,\\nthrowing up heaps of shingle to the distance of\\nfifty feet upon the land then, rushing back,\\nlaid bare its sandy bed, from which it rolled\\nimmense stones, with a hoarse and dismal\\nnoise. The sea, swelled by the violence of the\\nwind, rose higher every moment; and the\\nwhole channel between this island and the isle\\nof Amber was soon one vast sheet of white\\nfoam, full of yawning pits of black and deep", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0200.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 187\\nbillows. Heaps of this foam, more than six\\nfeet high, were piled up at the bottom of the\\nbay; and the winds which swept its surface\\ncarried masses of it over the steep sea-bank,\\nscattering it upon the land to the distance of\\nhalf a league. These innumerable white\\nflakes, driven horizontally even to the very\\nfoot of the mountains, looked like snow issuing\\nfrom the bosom of the ocean. The appearance\\nof the horizon portended a lasting tempest the\\nsky and the water seemed blended together.\\nThick masses of clouds, of a frightful form,\\nswept across the zenith with the swiftness of\\nbirds, while others appeared motionless as\\nrocks. Not a single spot of blue sky could be\\ndiscerned in the whole firmament and a pale\\nyellow gleam only lightened up all the objects\\nof the earth, the sea, and the skies.\\nFrom the violent rolling of the ship, what we\\nall dreaded happened at last. The cables\\nwhich held her bow were torn away: she then\\nswung to a single hawser, and was instantly\\ndashed upon the rocks, at the distance of half\\na cable s length from the shore. A general\\ncry of horror issued from the spectators. Paul\\nrushed forward to throw himself into the sea,\\nwhen, seizing him by the arm, My son, I\\nexclaimed, would you perish? Let me go", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0201.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "188 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nto save her, he cried, or let me die! See\\ning that despair had deprived him of reason,\\nDomingo and I, in order to preserve him,\\nfastened a long cord around his waist, and held\\nit fast by the end. Paul then precipitated him-\\nself towards the Saint-Geran, now swimming,\\nand now walking upon the rocks. Sometimes\\nhe had hopes of reaching the vessel, which the\\nsea, by the reflux of its waves, had left almost\\ndry, so that you could have walked round it on\\nfoot but suddenly the billows, returning with\\nfresh fury, shrouded it beneath mountains of\\nwater, which then lifted it upright upon its\\nkeel. The breakers at the same moment threw\\nthe unfortunate Paul far upon the beach, his\\nlegs bathed in blood, his bosom wounded, and\\nhimself half dead. The moment he had recov-\\nered the use of his senses, he arose, and\\nreturned with new ardor towards the vessel,\\nthe parts of which now yawned asunder from\\nthe violent strokes of the billows. The crew\\nthen, despairing of their safety, threw them-\\nselves in crowds into the sea, upon yards,\\nplanks, hen-coops, tables, and barrels. At\\nthis moment we beheld an object which wrung\\nour hearts with grief and pity a young lady\\nappeared in the stern-gallery of the Saint-\\nGeran, stretching out her arms towards him", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0202.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 189\\nwho was making so many efforts to join her.\\nIt was Virginia. She had discovered her lover\\nby his intrepidity. The sight of this amiable\\ngirl, exposed to such horrible danger, filled\\nus with unutterable despair. As for Virginia,\\nwith a firm and dignified mien, she waved her\\nhand, as if bidding us an eternal farewell.\\nAll the sailors had flung themselves into the\\nsea, except one, who still remained upon the\\ndeck, and who was naked and strong as Her-\\ncules. This man approached Virginia with\\nrespect, and, kneeling at her feet attempted\\nto force her to throw off her clothes, but\\nshe repulsed him with modesty, and turned\\naway her head. Then were heard redoubled\\ncries from the spectators, Save her! save\\nher! do not leave her! But at that moment a\\nmountain billow, of enormous magnitude,\\ningulfed itself between the isle of Amber and\\nthe coast, and menaced the shattered vessel,\\ntowards which it rolled bellowing, with its\\nblack sides and foaming head. At this terrible\\nsight the sailor flung himself into the sea and\\nVirginia, seeing death inevitable, crossed her\\nhands upon her breast, and raising upwards\\nher serene and beauteous eyes, seemed an\\nangel prepared to take her flight to Heaven.\\nOh, day of horror! Alas, everything was", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0203.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "190 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nswallowed up by the relentless billows. The\\nsurge threw some of the spectators, whom an\\nimpulse of humanity had prompted to advance\\ntowards Virginia, far upon the beach, and also\\nthe sailor who had endeavored to save her life.\\nThis man, who had escaped from almost cer-\\ntain death, kneeling on the sand, exclaimed,\\n44 Oh, my God! thou hast saved my life, but I\\nwould have given it willingly for that excel-\\nlent young lady, who had persevered in not\\nundressing herself as I had done. Domingo\\nand I drew the unfortunate Paul to the shore.\\nHe was senseless, and blood was flowing from\\nhis mouth and ears. The Governor ordered\\nhim to be put into the hands of a surgeon,\\nwhile we, on our part, wandered along the\\nbeach, in hopes that the sea would throw up\\nthe corpse of Virginia. But the wind having\\nsuddenly changed, as it frequently happens\\nduring hurricanes, our search was in vain and\\nwe had the grief of thinking that we should not\\nbe able to bestow on this sweet and unfortu-\\nnate girl the last sad duties. We retired from\\nthe spot overwhelmed with dismay, and our\\nminds wholly occupied by one cruel loss,\\nalthough numbers had perished in the wreck.\\nSome of the spectators seemed tempted, from\\nthe fatal destiny of this virtuous girl, to doubt", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0204.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 191\\nthe existence of Providence for there are in\\nlife such terrible, such unmerited evils, that\\neven the hope of the wise is sometimes shaken.\\nIn the meantime Paul, who began to recover\\nhis senses, was taken to a house in the neigh-\\nborhood, till he was in a fit state to be removed to\\nhis own home. Thither I bent my way with Do-\\nmingo to discharge the melancholy duty of pre-\\nparing Virginia s mother and her friend for the\\ndisastrous event which had happened. When\\nwe had reached the entrance of the valley of\\nthe river of Fan-Palms, some negroes informed\\nus that the sea had thrown up many pieces of\\nthe wreck in the opposite bay. We descended\\ntowards it and one of the first objects that\\nstruck my sight upon the beach was the corpse\\nof Virginia. The body was half covered with\\nsand, and preserved the attitude in which we\\nhad seen her perish. Her features were not\\nsensibly changed, her eyes were closed, and\\nher countenance was still serene but the pale\\npurple hues of death were blended on her\\ncheek with the blush of virgin modesty. One\\nof her hands was placed upon her clothes and\\nthe other, which she held on her heart, was fast\\nclosed, and so stiffened, that it was with diffi-\\nculty that I took from its grasp a small box.\\nHow great was my emotion when I saw that", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0205.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "192 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nit contained the picture of Paul, which she\\nhad promised him never to part with while she\\nlived! At the sight of this last mark of the\\nfidelity and tenderness of the unfortunate girl,\\nI wept bitterly. As for Domingo, he beat his\\nbreast, and pierced the air with his shrieks.\\nWith heavy hearts we then carried the body of\\nVirginia to a fisherman s hut, and gave it in\\ncharge of some poor Malabar women, who\\ncarefully washed away the sand.\\nWhile they were employed in this melan-\\ncholy office, we ascended the hill with trem-\\nbling steps to the plantation. We found\\nMadame de la Tour and Margaret at prayer\\nhourly expecting to have tidings from the\\nship. As soon as Madame de la Tour saw me\\ncoming, she eagerly cried, Where is my\\ndaughter my dear daughter, my child? My\\nsilence and my tears apprised her of her mis-\\nfortune. She was instantly seized with con-\\nvulsive stopping of the breath and agonizing\\npains, and her voice was only heard in sighs\\nand groans. Margaret cried, Where is my\\nson? I do not see my son! and fainted. We\\nran to her assistance. In a short time she\\nrecovered, and being assured that Paul was\\nsafe, and under the care of the Governor, she\\nthought of nothing but of succoring her friend,", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0206.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 193\\nwho recovered from one fainting fit only to\\nfall into another. Madame de la Tour passed\\nthe whole night in these cruel sufferings, and\\nI became convinced that there was no sorrow\\nlike that of a mother. When she recovered\\nher senses, she cast a fixed, unconscious look\\ntowards heaven. In vain her friend and myself\\npressed her hands in ours in vain we called\\nupon her by the most tender names; she\\nappeared wholly insensible to these testimo-\\nnials of our affection, and no sound issued from\\nher oppressed bosom, but deep and hollow\\nmoans.\\nDuring the morning Paul was carried home\\nin a palanquin. He had now recovered the\\nuse of his reason, but was unable to utter a\\nword. His interview with his mother and\\nMadame de la Tour, which I had dreaded,\\nproduced a better effect than all my cares. A\\nray of consolation gleamed on the countenance\\nof the two unfortunate mothers. They pressed\\nclose to him, clasped him in their arms, and\\nkissed him their tears, which excess of anguish\\nhad till now dried up at the source, began to\\nflow. Paul mixed his tears with theirs; and\\nnature having thus found relief, a long stupor\\nsucceeded the convulsive pangs they had\\n13 Paul and Virginia", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0207.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "194 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nsuffered, and afforded them a lethargic repose,\\nwhich was in truth, like that of death.\\nMonsieur de la Bourdonnais sent to apprise\\nme secretly that the corpse of Virginia had been\\nborne to the town by his order, from whence\\nit was to be transferred to the church of the\\nShaddock Grove. I immediately went down\\nto Port Louis, where I found a multitude assem-\\nbled from all parts of the island, in order to be\\npresent at the funeral solemnity, as if the isle\\nhad lost that which was nearest and dearest to\\nit. The vessels in the harbor had their yards\\ncrossed, their flags halfmast, and fired guns at\\nlong intervals. A body of grenadiers led the\\nfuneral procession, with their muskets re-\\nversed, their muffled drums sending forth slow\\nand dismal sounds. Dejection was depicted in\\nthe countenance of these warriors, who had so\\noften braved death in battle without changing\\ncolor. Eight young ladies of considerable fam-\\nilies of the island, dressed in white, and bear-\\ning palm-branches in their hands, carried the\\ncorpse of their amiable companion, which was\\ncovered with flowers. They were followed by\\na chorus of children, chanting hymns, and by\\nthe Governor, his field officer, all the principal\\ninhabitants of the island, and an immense\\ncrowd of people.", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0208.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 195\\nThis imposing funeral solemnity had been\\nordered by the administration of the country,\\nwhich was desirous of doing honor to the vir-\\ntues of Virginia. But when the mournful pro-\\ncession arrived at the foot of this mountain\\nwithin sight of those cottages of which she had\\nbeen so long an inmate and an ornament,\\ndiffusing happiness all around them, and which\\nher loss had now filled with despair, the funeral\\npomp was interrupted, the hymns and anthems\\nceased, and the whole plain resounded with\\nsighs and lamentations. Numbers of young\\ngirls ran from the neighboring plantations, to\\ntouch the coffin of Virginia with their handker-\\nchiefs, and with chaplets and crowns of flow-\\ners, invoking her as a saint. Mothers asked of\\nHeaven a child like Virginia; lovers, a heart\\nas faithful the poor, as tender a friend and\\nthe slaves as kind a mistress.\\nWhen the procession had reached the place\\nof interment, some negresses of Madagascar\\nand Caff res of Mozambique placed a number of\\nbaskets of fruit around the corpse, and hung\\npieces of stuff upon the adjoining trees, accord-\\ning to the custom of their several countries.\\nSome Indian women from Bengal also, and\\nfrom the coast of Malabar, brought cages full\\nof small birds, which they set at liberty upon", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0209.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "196 PAUL AND. VIRGINIA.\\nher coffin. Thus deeply did the loss of this\\namiable being affect the natives of different\\ncountries, and thus was the ritual of various\\nreligions performed over the tomb of unfortu-\\nnate virtue.\\nIt became necessary to place guards round\\nher grave, and to employ gentle force in re-\\nmoving some of the daughters of the neighbor-\\ning villages, who endeavored to throw them-\\nselves into it, saying that they had no longer\\nany consolation to hope for in this world, and\\nthat nothing remained for them but to die with\\ntheir benefactress.\\nOn the western side of the church of the\\nShaddock Grove is a small copse of bamboos,\\nwhere, in returning from mass with her mother\\nand Margaret, Virginia loved to rest herself,\\nseated by the side of him whom she then called\\nbrother. This was the spot selected for her\\ninterment.\\nAt his return from the funeral solemnity,\\nMonsieur de la Bourdonnais came up here, fol-\\nlowed by part of his numerous retinue. He\\noffered Madame de la Tour and her friend all\\nthe assistance it was in his power to bestow.\\nAfter briefly expressing his indignation at the\\nconduct of her unnatural aunt, he advanced to\\nPaul, and said everything which he thought", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0210.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 197\\nmost likely to soothe and console him.\\n11 Heaven is my witness, said he, that I\\nwished to insure your happiness, and that of\\nyour family. My dear friend, you must go to\\nFrance I will obtain a commission for you,\\nand during your absence I will take the same\\ncare of your mother as if she were my own.\\nHe then offered him his hand; but Paul drew\\naway and turned his head aside, unable to bear\\nhis sight.\\nI remained for some time at the plantation\\nof my unfortunate friends, that I might render\\nto them and Paul those offices of friendship\\nthat were in my power, and which might alle-\\nviate, though they could not heal the wounds\\nof calamity. At the end of three weeks, Paul\\nwas able to walk but his mind seemed to droop\\nin proportion as his body gathered strength.\\nHe was insensible to everything; his look was\\nvacant and when asked a question, he made\\nno reply. Madame de la Tour, who was\\ndying, said to him often, My son, while I\\nlook at you, I think I see my dear Virginia.\\nAt the name of Virginia he shuddered, and\\nhastened away from her, notwithstanding the\\nentreaties of his mother, who begged him to\\ncome back to her friend. He used to go alone\\ninto the garden, and seat himself at the foot", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0211.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "198 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nof Virginia s cocoa-tree, with his eyes fixed\\nupon the fountain. The Governor s surgeon,\\nwho had shown the most humane attention to\\nPaul and the whole family, told us that in\\norder to cure the deep melancholy which had\\ntaken possession of his mind, we must allow\\nhim to do whatever he pleased, without contra-\\ndiction this, he said, afforded the only chance\\nof overcoming the silence in which he perse-\\nvered.\\nI resolved to follow this advice. The first\\nuse which Paul made of his returning strength\\nwas to absent himself from the plantation.\\nBeing determined not to lose sight of him I set\\nout immediately, and desired Domingo to take\\nsome provisions and accompany us. The\\nyoung man s strength and spirits seemed re-\\nnewed as he descended the mountain. He first\\ntook the road to the Shaddock Grove, and when\\nhe was near the church, in the Alley of Bam-\\nboos, he walked directly to the spot where he\\nsaw some earth fresh turned up; kneeling\\ndown there, and raising his eyes to heaven, he\\noffered up a long prayer. This appeared to me\\na favorable symptom of the return of his\\nreason since this mark of confidence in the\\nSupreme Being showed that his mind was\\nbeginning to resume its natural functions.", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0212.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 199\\nDomingo and I, following his example, fell\\nupon our knees, and mingled our prayers with\\nhis. When he arose, he bent his way, paying\\nlittle attention to us, towards the northern\\npart of the island. As I knew that he was not\\nonly ignorant of the spot where the body of\\nVirginia had been deposited, but even of the\\nfact that it had been recovered from the waves,\\nI asked him why he had offered up his prayer\\nat the foot of those bamboos. He answered,\\nWe have been there so often.\\nHe continued his course until we reached the\\nborders of the forest, when night came on. I\\nset him the example of taking some nourish-\\nment, and prevailed on him to do the same;\\nand we slept upon the grass, at the foot of a\\ntree. The next day I thought he seemed dis-\\nposed to retrace his steps; for, after having\\ngazed a considerable time from the plain upon\\nthe church of the Shaddock Grove, with its\\nlong avenues of bamboos, he made a move-\\nment as if to return home; but suddenly\\nplunging into the forest, he directed his course\\ntowards the north. I guessed what w r as his\\ndesign, and I endeavored, but in vain, to dis-\\nsuade him from it. About noon we arrived at\\nthe quarter of Golden Dust. He rushed down\\nto the sea-shore, opposite to the spot where the", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0213.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "200 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nSaint-Geran had been wrecked. At the sight\\nof the isle of Amber, and its channel, then\\nsmooth as a mirror, he exclaimed, Virginia!\\noh, my dear Virginia! and fell senseless.\\nDomingo and I carried him into the woods,\\nwhere we had some difficulty in recovering\\nhim. As soon as he regained his senses, he\\nwished to return to the sea-shore; but we con-\\njured him not to renew his own anguish and\\nours by such cruel remembrances, and he took\\nanother direction. During a whole week he\\nsought every spot where he had once wandered\\nwith the companion of his childhood. He\\ntraced the path by which she had gone to in-\\ntercede for the slave of the Black River. He\\ngazed again upon the banks of the river of the\\nThree Breasts, where she had rested herself\\nwhen unable to walk further, and upon the\\npart of the wood where they had lost their way.\\nAll the haunts, which recalled to his memory\\nthe anxieties, the sports, the repasts, the be-\\nnevolence of her he loved, the river of the\\nSloping Mountain, my house, the neighboring\\ncascade, the papaw tree she had planted, the\\ngrassy fields in which she loved to run, the\\nopenings of the forest where she used to sing,\\nall in succession called forth his tears; and\\nthose very echoes which had so often resounded", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0214.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 201\\nwith their mutual shouts of joy, now repeated\\nonly these accents of despair, Virginia! oh,\\nmy dear Virginia\\nDuring this savage and wandering life, his\\neyes became sunk and hollow, his skin assumed\\na yellow tint, and his health rapidly declined.\\nConvinced that our present sufferings are ren-\\ndered more acute by the bitter recollection of\\nbygone pleasures, and that the passions gather\\nstrength in solitude, I resolved to remove my\\nunfortunate friend from those scenes which re-\\ncalled the remembrance of his loss, and to lead\\nhim to a more busy part of the island. With\\nthis view, I conducted him to the inhabited\\npart of the elevated quarter of Williams, which\\nhe had never visited, and where the busy pur-\\nsuits of agriculture and commerce ever occa-\\nsioned much bustle and variety. Numbers of\\ncarpenters were employed in hewing down and\\nsquaring trees, while others were sawing them\\ninto planks carriages were continually passing\\nand repassing on the roads; numerous herds\\nof oxen and troops of horses were feeding on\\nthose widespread meadows, and the whole\\ncountry was dotted with the dwellings of man.\\nOn some spots the elevation of the soil per-\\nmitted the culture of many of the plants of\\nEurope the yellow ears of ripe corn waved", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0215.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "202 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nupon the plains strawberry plants grew in the\\nopenings of the woods, and the roads were bor-\\ndered by hedges of rose-trees. The freshness\\nof the air, too, giving tension to the nerves,\\nwas favorable to the health of Europeans.\\nFrom those heights, situated near the middle\\nof the island, and surrounded by extensive\\nforests, neither the sea, nor Port Louis, nor the\\nchurch of the Shaddock Grove, nor any other\\nobject associated with the remembrance of Vir-\\nginia could be discerned. Even the moun-\\ntains, which present various shapes on the side\\nof Port Louis, appear from hence like a long\\npromontory, in a straight and perpendicular\\nline, from which arise lofty pyramids of rock,\\nwhose summits are enveloped in the clouds.\\nConducting Paul to these scenes, I kept him\\ncontinually in action, walking with him in rain\\nand sunshine, by day and by night. I sometimes\\nwandered with him into the depths of the for-\\nests, or led him over untilled grounds, hoping\\nthat change of scene and fatigue might divert\\nhis mind from its gloomy meditations. But\\nthe soul of a lover finds everywhere the traces\\nof the beloved object. Night and day, the\\ncalm of solitude and the tumult of the crowds,\\nare to him the same time itself, which casts\\nthe shade of oblivion over so many other re-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0216.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 203\\nmembrances, in vain would tear that tender\\nand sacred recollection from the heart. The\\nneedle, when touched by the loadstone, how-\\never it may have been moved from its position,\\nis no sooner left to repose, than it returns to\\nthe pole of its attraction. So, when I inquired\\nof Paul, as we wandered amidst the plains of\\nWilliams, Where shall we now go? he\\npointed to the north, and said, Yonder are our\\nmountains; let us return home.\\nI now saw that all the means I took to divert\\nhim from his melancholy were fruitless, and\\nthat no resource was left but an attempt to\\ncombat his passion by the arguments which\\nreason suggested. I answered him, Yes,\\nthere are the mountains where once dwelt your\\nbeloved Virginia and here is the picture you\\ngave her, and which she held, when dying, to\\nher heart that heart, which even in its last\\nmoments only beat for you. I then presented\\nto Paul the little portrait which he had given\\nto Virginia on the borders of the cocoa-tree\\nfountain. At this sight a gloomy joy over-\\nspread his countenance. He eagerly seized the\\npicture with his feeble hands, and held it to his\\nlips. His oppressed bosom seemed ready to\\nburst with emotion, and his eyes were filled\\nwith tears which had no power to flow.", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0217.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "204 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\n41 My son, said I, listen to one who is your\\nfriend, who was the friend of Virginia, and\\nwho, in the bloom of your hopes, has often en-\\ndeavored to fortify your mind against the un-\\nforeseen accidents of life. What do you deplore\\nwith so much bitterness? Is it your own mis-\\nfortunes, or those of Virginia, which affect you\\nso deeply?\\nYour own misfortunes are indeed severe.\\nYou have lost the most amiable of girls, who\\nwould have grown up to womanhood a pattern\\nto her sex, one who sacrificed her own inter-\\nests to yours who preferred you to all that\\nfortune could bestow, and considered you as\\nthe only recompense worthy of her virtues.\\nBut might not this very object, from whom\\nyou expected the purest happiness, have proved\\nto you a source of the most cruel distress?\\nShe had returned poor and disinherited; all\\nyou could henceforth have partaken with her\\nwas your labor. Rendered more delicate by\\nher education, and more courageous by her\\nmisfortunes, you might have beheld her every\\nday sinking beneath her efforts to share and\\nlighten your fatigues. Had she brought you\\nchildren, they would only have served to in-\\ncrease her anxieties and your own, from the", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0218.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 205\\ndifficulty of sustaining at once your aged pat-\\nents and your infant family.\\n6 Very likely you will tell me that the Gov-\\nernor would have helped you but how do you\\nknow that in a colony whose governors are so\\nfrequently changed, you would have had others\\nlike Monsieur de la Bourdonnais? that one\\nmight not have been sent destitute of good\\nfeeling and of morality? that your young wife,\\nin order to procure some miserable pittance,\\nmight not have been obliged to seek his favor?\\nHad she been weak you would have been to be\\npitied; and if she had remained virtuous, you\\nwould have continued poor; forced even to coin\\nsider yourself fortunate if, on account of the\\nbeauty and virtue of your wife, you had not to\\nendure persecution from those who had prom-\\nised you protection.\\nIt would still have remained to you, you\\nmay say, to have enjoyed a pleasure independ-\\nent of fortune, that of protecting a beloved be-\\ning, who, in proportion to her own helplessness,\\nhad more attached herself to you. You may\\nfancy that your pains and sufferings would\\nhave served to endear you to each other, and\\nthat your passion would have gathered\\nstrength from your mutual misfortunes. Un-\\ndoubtedly virtuous love does find consolation", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0219.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "206 PAUL AND VIRGINIA\\neven in such melancholy retrospects. But Vir-\\nginia is no more yet those persons still live,\\nwhom, next to yourself, she held most dear;\\nher mother, and your own your inconsolable\\naffliction is bringing them both to the grave.\\nPlace your happiness as she did hers, in afford-\\ning them succor. My son, beneficence is the\\nhappiness of the virtuous there is no greater\\nor more certain enjoyment on the earth.\\nSchemes of pleasure, repose, luxuries, wealth\\nand glory are not suited to man, weak, wan-\\ndering, and transitory as he is. See how\\nrapidly one step towards the acquisition of for-\\ntune has precipitated us all to the lowest abyss\\nof misery You were opposed to it, it is true\\nbut who would not have thought that Virgin-\\nia s voyage would terminate in her happiness\\nand your own? an invitation from a rich and\\naged relation, the advice of a wise governor,\\nthe approbation of the whole colony, and the\\nwell-advised authority of her confessor, de-\\ncided the lot of Virginia. Thus do we run to\\nour ruin, deceived even by the prudence of\\nthose who watch over us it would be better,\\nno doubt, not to believe them, nor even to lis-\\nten to the voice or lean on the hopes of a de-\\nceitful world. But all men, those you see\\noccupied in these plains, those who go abroad", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0220.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 207\\nto seek their fortunes, and those in Europe\\nwho enjoy repose from the labors of others, are\\nliable to reverses! not one is secure from los-\\ning, at some period, all that he most values,\\ngreatness, wealth, wife, children, and friends.\\nMost of these would have their sorrow in-\\ncreased by the remembrance of their own im-\\nprudence. But you have nothing with which\\nyou can reproach yourself. You have been\\nfaithful in your love. In the bloom of youth,\\nby not departing from the dictates of nature,\\nyou evinced the wisdom of a sage. Your views\\nwere just, because they were pure, simple, and\\ndisinterested. You had, besides, on Virginia,\\nsacred claims which nothing could countervail.\\nYou have lost her but it is neither your own\\nimprudence, nor your avarice, nor your false\\nwisdom which has occasioned this misfortune,\\nbut the will of God, who has employed the\\npassions of others to snatch from you the ob-\\nject of your love God, from whom you derive\\neverything, who knows what is most fitting\\nfor you, and whose wisdom has not left you\\nany cause for the repentance and despair\\nwhich succeed the calamities that are brought\\nupon us by ourselves.\\nVainly, in your misfortunes, do you say to\\nyourself, I have not deserved them/ Is it", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0221.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "COS PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nthen the calamity of Virginia her death and\\nher present condition that you deplore? She\\nhas undergone the fate allotted to all,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 to\\nhigh birth, to beauty, and even to empires\\nthemselves. The life of man, with all its pro-\\nject, may be compared to a tower, at whose\\nsummit is death. When your Virginia was\\nborn, she was condemned to die; happily for\\nherself, she is released from life before losing\\nher mother, or yours, or you; saved, thus,\\nfrom undergoing pangs worse than those of\\ndeath itself.\\n4 Learn, then, my son. that death is a ben-\\nefit to all men it is the night of that restless\\nday we call by the name of life. The diseases,\\nthe griefs, the vexations, and the fears, which\\nperpetually embitter our life as long as we\\npossess it, molest us no more in the sleep of\\ndeath. If you inquire into the history of those\\nmen who appear to have been the happiest,\\nyou will find that they have bought their ap-\\nparent felicity very dear; public consideration,\\nperhaps, by domestic evils the rare happiness\\nof being beloved, by continual sacrifices; and\\noften, at the expiration of a life devoted to the\\ngood of others, they see themselves surrounded\\nonly by false friends, and ungrateful relations.\\nBut Virginia was happy to her very last mo-", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0222.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 209\\nment. When with us, she was happy in par-\\ntaking of the gifts of nature when far from\\nus, she found enjoyment in the practice of vir-\\ntue and even at the terrible moment in which\\nwe saw her perish, she still had cause for self-\\ngratulation. For, whether she cas her eyes\\non the assembled colony, made miserable by\\nher expected loss, or on you, my son, who,\\nwith so much intrepidity, were endeavoring to\\nsave her, she must have seen how dear she was\\nto all. Her mind was fortified against the fu-\\nture by the remembrance of her innocent life\\nand at that moment she received the reward\\nwhich Heaven reserves for virtue, a courage\\nsuperior to danger. She met death with a\\nserene countenance.\\nMy son! God gives all the trials of life to\\nvirtue, in order to show that virtue alone can\\nsupport them, and even find in them happiness\\nand glory. When he designs for it an illustri-\\nous reputation, he exhibits it on a wide the-\\nater, and contending with death. Then does\\nthe courage of virtue shine forth as an exam-\\nple, and the misfortunes to which it has been\\nexposed receive forever, from posterity, the\\ntribute of their tears. This is the immortal\\nmonur. .ent reserved for virtue in a world where\\neverything else passes away, and where the\\n14 Paul and Virginia", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0223.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "210 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nnames, even of the greater number of kings\\nthemselves, are soon buried in eternal obliv-\\nion.\\nMeanwhile, Virginia still exists. My son,\\nyou see that everything changes on this earth,\\nbut that nothing is ever lost. No art of man\\ncan annihilate the smallest particle of matter;\\ncan then, that which has possessed reason,\\nsensibility, affection, virtue and religion be\\nsupposed capable of destruction, when the very\\nelements with which it is clothed are imper-\\nishable? Ah! however happy Virginia may\\nhave been with us, she is now much more so.\\nThere is a God, my son it is unnecessary for\\nme to prove it to you, for the voice of all na-\\nture loudly proclaims it. The wickedness of\\nmankind lead them to deny the existence of a\\nBeing, whose justice they fear. But your\\nmind is fully convinced of his existence, while\\nhis works are ever before your eyes. Do you\\nthen believe that he would leave Virginia with-\\nout recompense? Do you think that the same\\nPower which inclosed her noble soul in a form\\nso beautiful, so like an emanation from\\nitself, could not have saved her from the waves?\\nthat he who has ordained the happiness of\\nman here, by laws unknown to you, cannot\\nprepare a still higher degree of felicity for", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0224.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 211\\nVirginia by other laws, of which you are\\nequally ignorant? Before we were born into\\nthis world, could we, do you imagine, even if\\nwe were capable of thinking at all, have\\nformed any idea of our existence here? And\\nnow that we are in the midst of this gloomy\\nand transitory life, can we foresee what is be-\\nyond the tomb, or in what manner we shall be\\nemancipated from it? Does God, like man,\\nneed this little globe, the earth, as a theater\\nfor the display of his intelligence and his good-\\nness? and can he only dispose of human life\\nin the territory of death There is not, in the\\nentire ocean, a single drop of water which is\\nnot peopled with living beings appertaining to\\nman and does there exist nothing for him in\\nthe heavens above his head? What! is there\\nno supreme intelligence, no divine goodness,\\nexcept on this little spot where we are placed?\\nIn those innumerable glowing fires, in those\\ninfinite fields of light which surround them,\\nand which neither storms nor darkness can ex-\\ntinguish, is there nothing but empty space and\\nan eternal void? If we, weak and ignorant as\\nwe are, might dare to assign limits to that\\nPower from whom we have received every-\\nthing, we might possibly imagine that we were\\nplaced on the very confines of his empire,", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0225.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "212 PAUL AND VIRGINIA,\\nwhere life is perpetually struggling with death,\\nand innocence forever in danger from the\\npower of tyranny\\nSomewhere, then, without doubt, there is\\nanother world, where virtue will receive its\\nreward. Virginia is now happy. Ah if from\\nthe abode of angels she could hold communica-\\ntion with you, she would tell you as she did\\nwhen she bade you her last adieus, O, Paul!\\nlife is but a scene of trial. I have been obedi-\\nent to the laws of nature, love and virtue. I\\ncrossed the seas to obey the will of my rela-\\ntions I sacrificed wealth in order to keep my\\nfaith; and I preferred the loss of life to diso-\\nbeying the dictates of modesty. Heaven found\\nthat I had fulfilled my duties, and has snatched\\nme forever from all the miseries I might have\\nendured myself, and all I might have felt for\\nthe miseries of others. I am placed far above\\nthe reach of all human evils, and you pity me\\nI am become pure and unchangeable as a par-\\nticle of light, and you would recall me to the\\ndarkness of human life! O, Paul! O, my be-\\nloved friend! recollect those days of happiness,\\nwhen in the morning we felt the delightful\\nsensations excited by the unfolding beauties of\\nnature when we seemed to rise with the sun\\nto the peaks of those rocks, and then to spread", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0226.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 213\\nwith his rays over the bosom of the forests.\\nWe experienced a delight, the cause of which\\nwe could not comprehend. In the innocence\\nof our desires, we wished to be all sight, to en-\\njoy the rich colors of the early dawn all smell,\\nto taste a thousand perfumes at once all hear-\\ning, to listen to the singing of our birds and\\nall hearts, to be capable of gratitude for those\\nmingled blessings. Now, at the source of the\\nbeauty whence flows all that is delightful upon\\nearth, my soul intuitively sees, tastes, hears,\\ntouches, what before she could only be made\\nsensible of through the medium of our weak\\norgans. Ah what language can describe these\\nshores of eternal bliss, which I inhabit forever!\\nAll that incite pow^r; and heavenly goodness\\ncould create to console the unhappy all that\\nthe friendship of numberless beings exulting\\nin the same facility can impart, we enjoy in\\nunmixed perfection. Support, then, the trial\\nwhich is now allotted to you, that you may\\nheighten the happiness of your Virginia by\\nlove which will know no termination, by a\\nunion which will be eternal. There I will\\ncalm your regrets, I will wipe away your tears.\\nOh, my beloved friend! my youthful husband!\\nraise your thoughts toward the infinite, to en-\\nable you to support the evils of a moment.", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0227.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "214 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nMy own emotion choked my utterance.\\nPaul, looking at me steadfastly, cried, She\\nis no more! she is no more! and a long faint-\\ning fit succeeded these words of woe. When\\nrestored to himself, he said, Since death is a\\ngood, and since Virgina is happy, I will die,\\ntoo, and be united to Virginia. Thus the\\nmotives of consolation I had offered, only\\nserved to nourish his despair. I was in the\\nsituation of a man who attempts to save a\\nfriend sinking in the midst of a flood, and who\\nobstinately refuses to swim. Sorrow had com-\\npletely overwhelmed his soul. Alas! the trials\\nof early years prepare man for the afflictions\\nof after-life but Paul had never experienced\\nany.\\nI took him back to his own dwelling, where\\nI found his mother and Madame de la Tour in\\na state of increased languor and exhaustion,\\nbut Margaret seemed to droop the most,\\nLively characters, upon whom petty troubles\\nhave but little effect, sink the soonest under\\ngreat calamities.\\nO my good friend, M said Margaret, I\\nthought last night I saw Virginia, dressed in\\nwhite, in the midst of groves and delicious gar-\\ndens. She said to me, I enjoy the most per- a\\nfeet happiness: and then approaching Paul", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0228.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 215\\nwith a smiling air, she bore him away with\\nher. While I was struggling to retain my son,\\nI felt that I myself too was quitting the earth,\\nand that I followed with inexpressible delight.\\nI then wished to bid my friend farewell, when\\nI saw that she was hastening after me, accom-\\npanied by Mary and Domingo. But the strang-\\nest circumstance remains yet to be told;\\nMadame de la Tour has this very night had a\\ndream exactly like mine in every possible re-\\nspect.\\n4 My dear friend/ I replied, nothing, I\\nfirmly believe, happens in this world without\\nthe permission of God. Future events, too,\\nare sometimes revealed in dreams.\\nMadame de, la Tour then related to me her\\ndream, which was exactly the same as Mar-\\ngaret s in every particular; and as I had never\\nobserved in either of these ladies any propen-\\nsity to superstition, I was struck with the singu-\\nlar coincidence of their dreams, and I felt con-\\nvinced that they would soon be realized. The\\nbelief that future events are sometimes revealed\\nto us during sleep, is one that is widely\\ndiffused among the nations of the earth. The\\ngreatest men of antiquity have had faith in it;\\namong whom may be mentioned Alexander\\nthe Great, Julius Caesar, the Scipios, the two", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0229.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "216 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nCatos, and Brutus, none of whom were weak-\\nminded persons. Both the Old and the New\\nTestament furnish us with numerous instances\\nof dreams that came to pass. As for myself, I\\nneed only, on this subject, appeal to my expe-\\nrience, as I have more than once had good\\nreason to believe that superior intelligences,\\nwho interest themselves in our welfare, com-\\nmunicate with us in these visions of the night.\\nThings which surpass the light of human\\nreason, cannot be proved by arguments derived\\nfrom that reason; but still, if the mind of man\\nis an image of that of God, since man can\\nmake known his will to the ends of the earth\\nby secret missives, may not the Supreme Intel-\\nligence which governs the universe employ\\nsimilar means to attain a like end? One friend\\nconsoles another by a letter, which, after pass-\\ning through many kingdoms, and being in the\\nhands of various individuals at enmity with\\neach other, brings at last joy and hope to the\\nbreast of a single human being. May not in\\nlike manner the Sovereign Protector of inno-\\ncence come in some secret way, to the help of\\na virtuous soul, which puts its trust in Him\\nalone? Has he occasions to employ visible\\nmeans to effect his purpose in this, whose\\nways are hidden in all his ordinary works?", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0230.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 217\\nWhy should we doubt the evidence of\\ndreams? for what is our life, occupied as it is\\nwith vain and fleeting imaginations, other than\\na prolonged vision of the night?\\nWhatever may be thought of this in general,\\non the present occasion the dreams of my\\nfriends were soon realized. Paul expired two\\nmonths after the death of Virginia, whose\\nname dwelt on his lips in his expiring mo-\\nments. About a week after the death of her\\nson, Margaret saw her last hour approach with\\nthat serenity which virtue only can feel. She\\nbade Madame de la Tour a most tender fare-\\nwell, in the certain hope, she said, of a de-\\nlightful and eternal re-union. Death is the\\ngreatest of blessings to us, added she, and\\nwe ought to desire it. If life be a punishment,\\nwe should wish for its termination if it be a\\ntrial, we should be thankful that it is short.\\nThe Governor took care of Domingo and\\nMary, who were no longer able to labor, and\\nwho survived their mistresses but a short time.\\nAs for poor Fidele, he pined to death soon\\nafter he had lost his master.\\nI afforded an asylum in my dwelling to\\nMadame de la Tour, who bore up under her cala-\\nmities with incredible elevation of mind. She\\nhad endeavored to console Paul and Margaret", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0231.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "218 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\ntill their last moments, as if she herself had no\\nmisfortunes of her own to bear. When they\\nwere no more, she used to talk to me every\\nday of them as of beloved friends, who were\\nstill living near her. She survived them how-\\never, but one month. Far from reproaching\\nher aunt for the afflictions she had caused, her\\nbenign spirit prayed to God to pardon her,\\nand to appease that remorse which we heard\\nbegan to torment her, as soon as she had sent\\nVirginia away with so much inhumanity.\\nConscience, that certain punishment of the\\nguilty, visited with all its terrors the mind of\\nthis unnatural relation. So great was her tor-\\nment, that life and death became equally un-\\nsupportable to her. Sometimes she reproached\\nherself with the untimely fate of her lovely\\nniece, and with the death of her mother, which\\nhad immediately followed it. At other times\\nshe congratulated herself for having repulsed\\nfar from her her two wretched creatures, who,\\nshe said, had both dishonored their family by\\ntheir groveling inclinations. Sometimes, at\\nthe sight of the many miserable objects with\\nwhich Paris abounds, she would fly into a rage,\\nand exclaim, Why are not these idle people\\nsent off to the colonies? 1 As for the notions\\nof humanity, virtue, and religion, adopted by", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0232.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 219\\nall nations, she said, they were only the inven-\\ntions of their rulers, to serve political pur-\\nposes. Then, flying all at once to the other\\nextreme, she abandoned herself to superstitious\\nterrors, which filled her with mortal fears.\\nShe would then give abundant alms to the\\nwealthy ecclesiastics who governed her, be-\\nseeching them to appease the wrath of God by\\nthe sacrifice of her fortune, as if the offering\\nto Him of the wealth she had withheld from\\nthe miserable could please her Heavenly\\nFather! In her imagination she often beheld\\nfields of fire, with burning mountains, wherein\\nhideous specters wandered about, loudly call-\\ning on her by name. She threw herself at her\\nconfessor s feet, imagining every description\\nof agony and torture; for Heaven just\\nHeaven always sends to the cruel the most\\nfrightful views of religion and a future state.\\nAtheist, thus, and fanatic in turn, holding\\nboth life and death in equal horror, she lived\\non for several years. But what completed the\\ntorments of her miserable existence, was that\\nvery object to which she had sacrificed every\\nnatural affection. She was deeply annoyed at\\nperceiving that her fortune must go, at her\\ndeath, to relations whom she hated, and she de-\\ntermined to alienate as much of it as she could.", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0233.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "220 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nThey, however, taking advantage of her fre-\\nquent attacks of low spirits, caused her to be\\nsecluded as a lunatic, and her affairs to be put\\ninto the hands of trustees. Her wealth thus\\ncompleted her ruin and, as the possession of\\nit had hardened her own heart, so did its antici-\\npation corrupt the hearts of those who coveted\\nit from her. At length she died and, to crown\\nher misery, she retained reason enough at last\\nto be sensible that she was plundered and de-\\nspised by the very persons whose opinions had\\nbeen her rule of conduct during her whole life.\\nOn the same spot, and at the foot of the\\nsame shrubs as his Virginia, was deposited the\\nbody of Paul and round about them lie the\\nremains of their tender mothers and their faith-\\nful servants. No marble marks the spot of\\ntheir humble graves, no inscription records\\ntheir virtues; but their memory is engraven\\nupon the hearts of those whom they have be-\\nfriended, in indelible characters. Their spirits\\nhave no need of the pomp, which they shunned\\nduring their life but if they still take an inter-\\nest in what passes upon earth, they no doubt\\nlove to wander beneath the roofs of these\\nhumble dwellings, inhabited by industrious\\nvirtue, to console poverty discontented with its\\nlot, to cherish in the hearts of lovers the sacred", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0234.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 221\\nflame of fidelity, and to inspire a taste for the\\nblessings of nature, a love of honest labor, and\\na dread of the allurements of riches. The voice\\nof the people, which is often silent with regard\\nto the monuments raised to kings, has given to\\nsome parts of this island names which will im-\\nmortalize the loss of Virginia. Near the isle\\nof Amber, in the midst of sandbanks, is a spot\\ncalled The Pass of the Saint-Geran, from the\\nname of the vessel which was there lost. The\\nextremity of that point of land which you see\\nyonder, three leagues off, half covered with\\nwater, and which the Saint-Geran could not\\ndouble the night before the hurricane, is called\\nthe Cape of Misfortune and before us, at the\\nend of the valley, is the Bay of the Tomb,\\nwhere Virginia was found buried in the sand\\nas if the waves had sought to restore her corpse\\nto her family, that they might render it the last\\nsad duties on those shores where so many\\nyears of her innocent life had been passed.\\nJoined thus in death, ye faithful lovers, who\\nwere so tenderly united unfortunate mothers!\\nbeloved family! these woods which sheltered\\nyou with their foliage, these fountains which\\nflowed for you, these hillsides upon which\\nyou reposed, still deplore your loss! No one\\nhas since presumed to cultivate that desolate", "height": "3492", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "paulvirginia00stpi_0235.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "222 PAUL AND VIRGINIA.\\nspot of land, or to rebuild those humble cot-\\ntages. Your goats are become wild; your\\norchards are destroyed your birds are all fled,\\nand nothing is heard but the cry of the spar-\\nrow-hawk, as it skims in quest of prey around\\nthis rocky basin. 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