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my secret wish that he might be prevailed on toaccompany me: it was also a probable hope,founded upon the shadowy restlessness which Ihad observed in him, and to which the animationwhich he appeared to feel on such subjects, andhis apparent indifference to all by which lie wasmore immediately surrounded, gave fresh strength.This wish 1 first hinted, and then expressed: hisanswer, though 1 had partly expected it, gave meall the pleasure of surprise — he consented; and,after the requisite arrangements, we commencedour voyages. After journeying through variouscountries of the south of Europe , our attentionwas turned towards the East, according to ouroriginal destination; and it was in my progressthrough those regions that the incident occurredupon which will turn what I may have to relate.

The constitution of Darvell, which must fromhis appearance have been in early life more thanusually robust, had been for some time graduallygiving way, without the intervention of any ap-parent disease: lie liad neither cough nor hectic,yet he becanio daily more enfeebled: his habitswere temperate, and he neither declined nor com-plained of fatigue, yet he was evidently wastingaway: he become more and more silent and