length of time harrassed her mind, were now happily terminated by
the return of Theodore and the clearing up of all doubts and suspicions
concerning him, to the utter confusion of Bonville. All her corroding
anxieties were now removed, and recent events had made her happy in
comparison to what she was a few weeks before, and her present
consolation fully compensated for all the preceding months of
unhappiness.

[_A&M_ (Alonzo speaking):

.... come in all thy native loveliness, and cheer the bosom of
wretchedness by thy grief dispersing smile!]

Theodore was again happy in the society of Alida, the pensive sweetness
of her manner, her innate goodness, and amiability, which had attracted
and secured the early affections of his heart, and made impressions that
could never be obliterated. He gave a minute account of all that had
happened, from the time they had parted until they had met again.

[_A&M_:

.... that pensive sweetness, those unrivalled virtues and matchless
worth, which he found in Melissa, and which attracted, fixed, and
secured the youngest affections of his soul?...
...
.... your ingenuous conduct has left impressions in my bosom which
can never be obliterated....
...
Alonzo then gave Melissa a minute account of all that happened to
him from the time of their parting ... until he met with her the day
before.]

He had visited the merchants in England with whom his father had been
concerned in business, and he found as he expected, that he had been
overreached by swindlers and sharpers. The pretended failure of the
merchants with whom he was in company, was all a sham, as, also, the
reported loss of the ships in their employ. The merchants had fled to
England; he had them arrested, and they had given up their effects to
much more than the amount of their debts. He therefore procured a
reversion of his father's losses, with costs, damages and interests,
when legally stated.

[_A&M_ (Benjamin Franklin speaking to Alonzo):

.... I wrote to my correspondent in England, and found, as I
expected, that he had been overreached by swindlers and sharpers.
The pretended failure of the merchants with whom he was in company,
was all a sham, as also the reported loss of the ships in their
employ. The merchants fled to England; I have had them arrested, and
they have given up their effects, to much more than the amount of
their debts. I have therefore procured a