water passed my lips. Sores broke out over my body, and those on my
groins and arm-pits were not closed for some months. My neck however was
free, and this no doubt saved my life. On the seventh day I regained my
senses, and found myself in my apartment, the wasted figure of my guardian
angel still watching over me. I remember, on perceiving in me a favorable
change, how her countenance was lit up with joy! Oh, Friendship! how
seldom are you found with the sincerity which I then beheld in an humble
and uneducated girl! Just when I thought all my prospects in life were
blighted; when I had keenly felt the unkindness of mankind, and despaired
of ever again finding any thing in this world worth living for; when I had
already bidden it farewell, and the other world was full in view; I found
what alone can make life delightful even in poverty and
misfortune--friendship and love. Soon the violence of the disease abated,
and I was saved.

I must hastily pass over my long and painful convalescence. A month
elapsed before I could venture to go beyond doors. Aleuka attended upon
me, and through her economy my purse yet held out. The plague had greatly
subsided; the month of December set in with uncommon severity of cold, and
checked its progress. Oh! the exquisite delight with which I left my hard
and burning bed and close apartment, the scenes of all my sufferings, for
the first time! With a prayer of thankfulness on my lips, I crossed the
threshold of the humble dwelling, and once more slowly mounted the steep
hill of Pera.

It was a bright, sunny, clear morning; the fresh, cool breeze from the
Black Sea blew over me, infusing new strength and life into my shattered
frame. The streets were again re-peopled, and business renewed. No one
recognized me in my pale, haggard and swollen countenance; and when I
presented myself at the door of a countryman in Pera, he drew back with an
exclamation of surprise, as if he had beheld a spirit.

My short story is told. I have comprised in a few words the tale of many
long days of agony and suffering, both mental and corporeal. I fast
regained my strength and vigor; the hollow furrows of my forehead and
cheeks soon gave way to the effects of a generous diet; and I once more
stood forth in health and full powers.

But you will ask, 'And where is she who watched over you during your
moments of suffering?--whom you called your guardian angel, and of whose
friendship and love you spoke in suc