“IN her disordered state,” continued he, “she knows me not as a father—I spread my morsel before her, and she flies from it—she forgets the sound of my voice—she is no longer unto me as a daughter. She who hath so often said, she would support me with her arm, and lead me about, when I should be old and decrepit—to her I call, but she returns me no answer. Is not the cause of my woes, a melancholy instance of the baleful art of the SEDUCER?—She is deprived of her reason, and knows not the weight of her misery; and I am doubly deadened with her affliction, and the accumulated misfortune of immature decrepitude.” “SEDUCTION is a crime,” I observed, “that nothing can be said to palliate or excuse.” “AND WOE to him,” added the old man, “who shall endeavour to extenuate it—_They have taken away my staff_”—continued he, raising a look of imploring mercy to Heaven, while a trembling tear rolled from his swollen eye, “_They have taken away my staff in my old age._” FREELY did my heart share in the sorrows of the good old man—when I left him, I prayed Heaven to compassionate his distress—and as I bent my pensive step towards _Belleview_, I had leisure to animadvert on the fatal tendency of SEDUCTION. Adieu! END OF VOL. I. [Illustration] The Power of Sympathy. _VOL. II._ [Illustration] Edited by Walter Littlefield. THE POWER OF SYMPATHY: or, the Triumph of Nature. Founded in Truth. BY MRS. PEREZ MORTON (SARAH WENTWORTH APTHORP). _With Frontispiece._ [Illustration] BOSTON: PRINTED·BY·CUPPLES & PATTERSON·AND·PUBLISHED BY·THEM·AT·THE·BACK BAY·BOOKSTORE·250·BOYLSTON·STREET Copyright, 1894, By WALTER LITTLEFIELD. _All Rights Reserved._ THE POWER OF SYMPATHY: OR, THE TRIUMPH OF NATURE. FOUNDED IN _TRUTH_. IN _TWO_ VOLUMES. VOL. II. Fain would he strew Life’s thorny Way with Flowers, And open to your View Elysian Bowers; Catch the warm Passions of the tender Youth, And win the Mind to Sentiment and Truth. [Illustration] PRINTED at _BOSTON_ BY ISAIAH THOMAS AND COMPANY. Sold at their Bookstore, No. 45, NEWBURY STREET, And at said THOMAS’s Bookstore in WORCESTER. MDCCLXXXIX.