His unjust reproaches, while they waked my resentment, recalled my former happiness, and filled my soul with rage and sorrow.

Horatio, perceiving the situation of my mind, endeavoured to divert my chagrin, by treating me with all the amusements and entertainments of the town.

I was gratified with every indulgence I could desire; introduced into the company of women in my own situation, by whom an uncommon deference was paid to me; and I began to lose all remembrance of my former condition, when an accident brought it back to my view with all its interesting circumstances.

Diverting myself one day with some newspapers, which I had not before perused, the following advertisement attracted my attention: '"Whereas a young gentlewoman disappeared from her father's house in the county of -- , about the end of September, on account (as is supposed) of some uneasiness of mind, and has not been as yet heard of.

Whoever will give any information about her to Mr.-- of Gray's Inn, shall be handsomely rewarded; or if she will return to the arms of her disconsolate parent, she will be received with the utmost tenderness, whatever reason she may have to think otherwise, and may be the means of prolonging the life of a father already weighed down almost to the grave with age and sorrow." 'This pathetic remonstrance had such an effect on me, that I was fully resolved to return, like the prodigal son, and implore the forgiveness of him who gave me life; but, alas! Upon inquiry, I found he had paid his debt to nature a month before, lamenting my absence to his last hour, having left his fortune to a stranger, as a mark of his resentment of my unkind and undutiful behaviour.