and that his daughter and himself had escaped with difficulty: consequently they must have been plundered by these lawless wretches, and probably had nothing left to defray their expences, which accounted in some measure for his having no person to attend upon him.
With a sensation of exalted pleasure, peculiar to the noble and disinterested mind, she recollected she was empowered to assist them; but this was an affair that required to be conducted with the greatest delicacy imaginable, and she was for some time irresolute in what manner to proceed. At last, however, she thought of an expedient which would prevent every unpleasant consequence that might otherwise arise from her benevolent intention. She had lately received fifty ducats, the quarterly portion of her income; which, on mature deliberation, she determined to inclose in a paper, and leave to be delivered by the hostess after her departure from the inn.
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