Now try to get your liberty! You will soon have no one to look after but yourself!_" and just as she whispered the last sentence into my ear, Mansfield came up to me, and with an oath, said, "Leave here this instant; you have been the means of my losing one hundred dollars to get this wench back,"-- at the same time kicking me with a heavy pair of boots.

As I left her, she gave one shriek, saying, "God be with you!" It was the last time that I saw her, and the last word I heard her utter.
I walked on shore.

The bell was tolling.

The boat was about to start.

I stood with a heavy heart, waiting to see her leave the wharf.