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hasty strides on her constitution. The hollow eye, the distressing
cough, and the often too flattering red on the cheek, foretold the
approach of death.

"I have often thought what a field for usefulness and affectionate
attention, on the part of ministers and Christian friends, is opened by
the frequent attacks and lingering progress of _consumptive_ illness. How
many such precious opportunities are daily lost, where Providence seems
in so marked a way to afford time and space for serious and Godly
instruction! Of how many may it be said: 'The way of peace have they not
known'; for not one friend ever came nigh to warn them to 'flee from the
wrath to come.'

"But the Dairyman's Daughter was happily made acquainted with the things
which belonged to her everlasting peace before the present disease had
taken root in her constitution. In my visits to her I might be said
rather to receive information than to impart it. Her mind was abundantly
stored with Divine truths, and her conversations truly edifying. The
recollection of it still produces a thankful sensation in my heart."

Nevertheless, when Borrow had bought a copy of this book he was willing
to do what was asked, and to attempt also to translate into German
Phillips' "Proximate Causes of the Material Phenomena of the Universe,"
or what the translator called "his tale of an apple and a pear." But
Phillips changed his mind about the "Dairyman's Daughter" and
commissioned a compilation of "Newgate Lives and Trials" instead. Borrow
failed with the translation of the "Proximate Causes" but liked very well
the compiling of the "Celebrated Trials"--of Joan of Arc, Cagliostro,
Mary Queen of Scots, Raleigh, the Gunpowder Plotters, Queen Caroline,
Thurtell, the Cato Street Conspirators, and many more--in six volumes. He
also wrote reviews for Phillips' Magazine, and contributed more
translations of poetry and many scraps of "Danish Traditions and
Superstitions," like the following:

"At East Hessing, in the district of Calling, there was once a rural
wedding; and when the morning was near at hand, the guests rushed out of
the house with much noise and tumult. When they were putting their
horses to the carts, in order to leave the place, each of them boasted
and bragged of his bridal present. But when the uproar was at the
highest, and they were all speaking together, a maiden dressed in green,
and with a bulrush plaited over her head, came from a neighbourin