rted in Ireland.
When I had finished, Mr Cophagus commenced as usual, "Um--very odd--lose
money--bad--grow honest--good--run away from friends--bad--not hung--
good--brain fever--bad--come here--good--stay with us--quite
comfortable--and so on."

"Thou hast suffered much, friend Japhet," said Mrs Cophagus, wiping her
eyes; "and I would almost venture to say, hast been chastised too
severely, were it not that those whom He loveth, He chastiseth. Still
thou art saved, and now out of danger; peradventure thou wilt now quit
a vain world, and be content to live with us; nay, as thou hast the
example of thy former master, it may perhaps please the Lord to advise
thee to become one of us, and to join us as a Friend. My husband was
persuaded to the right path by me," continued she, looking fondly at
him; "who knoweth but some of our maidens may also persuade thee to
eschew a vain, unrighteous world, and follow thy Redeemer in humility?"

"Very true--um--very true," observed Cophagus, putting more Quakerism
than usual in his style, and drawing out his ums to treble their usual
length; "Happy life--Japhet--um--all at peace--quiet amusements--think
about it--um--no hurry--never swear--by-and-bye heh!--spirit may
move--um--not now--talk about it--get well--set up shop--and so on."

I was tired with talking so much, and having taken some nourishment,
gain fell asleep. When I awoke in the evening, friend Cophagus and his
wife were not in the room; but Susannah Temple, whom I had first seen,
and of whom I had made inquiry of Ephraim, who was Cophagus's servant.
She was sitting close to the light and reading, and long did I continue
to gaze upon her, fearful of interrupting her. She was the most
beautiful specimen of clear and transparent white that I ever had
beheld--her complexion was unrivalled--her eyes were large, but I could
not ascertain their colour, as they were cast down upon her book, and
hid by her long fringed eyelashes--her eyebrows arched and regular, as
if drawn by a pair of compasses, and their soft hair in beautiful
contrast with her snowy forehead--her hair was auburn, but mostly
concealed within her cap--her nose was very straight but not very large,
and her mouth was perfection. She appeared to be between seventeen and
eighteen years old, as far as I could ascertain, her figure was
symmetrically perfect. Dressed as she was in the modest, simple garb
worn by the females of the Society of Friends, she gave an idea