ABSTRACT
As soon as I awoke I repaired to the chamber of the unfortunate and rash sufferer. He shrunk at the sight of me, and seemed overwhelmed with compunction. I entered into earnest conversation with him, and proposed, if he felt himself capable of bearing the motion of a carriage, that he should remove nearer to Bath, for the advantage of chirurgical assistance. ‘Let me perish here,’ said he; ‘why prolong a few short hours of life, to suffer a public and ignominious death?’ His agitated voice, the tortures of mental, united with corporeal sufferings, subdued my resentment, and I promised to conceal his crime, with the hope that his remaining days would be devoted to repentance.
