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1"The day for the execution of the Turk was fixed, but on the night previous to it he quitted his prison and before
2morning was distant many leagues from Paris. Felix had procured passports in the name of his father, sister, and
3himself. He had previously communicated his plan to the former, who aided the deceit by quitting his house, under the
4pretence of a journey and concealed himself, with his daughter, in an obscure part of Paris. "Felix conducted the
5fugitives through France to Lyons and across Mont Cenis to Leghorn, where the merchant had decided to wait a favourable
6opportunity of passing into some part of the Turkish dominions. "Safie resolved to remain with her father until the
7moment of his departure, before which time the Turk renewed his promise that she should be united to his deliverer; and
8Felix remained with them in expectation of that event; and in the meantime he enjoyed the society of the Arabian, who
9exhibited towards him the simplest and tenderest affection. They conversed with one another through the means of an
10interpreter, and sometimes with the interpretation of looks; and Safie sang to him the divine airs of her native
11country. "The Turk allowed this intimacy to take place and encouraged the hopes of the youthful lovers, while in his
12heart he had formed far other plans. He loathed the idea that his daughter should be united to a Christian, but he
13feared the resentment of Felix if he should appear lukewarm, for he knew that he was still in the power of his deliverer
14if he should choose to betray him to the Italian state which they inhabited. He revolved a thousand plans by which he
15should be enabled to prolong the deceit until it might be no longer necessary, and secretly to take his daughter with
16him when he departed. His plans were facilitated by the news which arrived from Paris. "The government of France were
17greatly enraged at the escape of their victim and spared no pains to detect and punish his deliverer. The plot of Felix
18was quickly discovered, and De Lacey and Agatha were thrown into prison. The news reached Felix and roused him from his
19dream of pleasure. His blind and aged father and his gentle sister lay in a noisome dungeon while he enjoyed the free
20air and the society of her whom he loved. This idea was torture to him. He quickly arranged with the Turk that if the
21latter should find a favourable opportunity for escape before Felix could return to Italy, Safie should remain as a
22boarder at a convent at Leghorn; and then, quitting the lovely Arabian, he hastened to Paris and delivered himself up to
23the vengeance of the law, hoping to free De Lacey and Agatha by this proceeding. "He did not succeed. They remained
24confined for five months before the trial took place, the result of which deprived them of their fortune and condemned
25them to a perpetual exile from their native country. "They found a miserable asylum in the cottage in Germany, where I
26discovered them. Felix soon learned that the treacherous Turk, for whom he and his family endured such unheard-of
27oppression, on discovering that his deliverer was thus reduced to poverty and ruin, became a traitor to good feeling and
28honour and had quitted Italy with his daughter, insultingly sending Felix a pittance of money to aid him, as he said, in
29some plan of future maintenance. "Such were the events that preyed on the heart of Felix and rendered him, when I first
30saw him, the most miserable of his family. He could have endured poverty, and while this distress had been the meed of
31his virtue, he gloried in it; but the ingratitude of the Turk and the loss of his beloved Safie were misfortunes more
32bitter and irreparable. The arrival of the Arabian now infused new life into his soul. "When the news reached Leghorn
33that Felix was deprived of his wealth and rank, the merchant commanded his daughter to think no more of her lover, but
34to prepare to return to her native country. The generous nature of Safie was outraged by this command; she attempted to
35expostulate with her father, but he left her angrily, reiterating his tyrannical mandate. "A few days after, the Turk
36entered his daughter's apartment and told her hastily that he had reason to believe that his residence at Leghorn had
37been divulged and that he should speedily be delivered up to the French government; he had consequently hired a vessel
38to convey him to Constantinople, for which city he should sail in a few hours. He intended to leave his daughter under
39the care of a confidential servant, to follow at her leisure with the greater part of his property, which had not yet
40arrived at Leghorn. "When alone, Safie resolved in her own mind the plan of conduct that it would become her to pursue
41in this emergency. A residence in Turkey was abhorrent to her; her religion and her feelings were alike averse to it. By
42some papers of her father which fell into her hands she heard of the exile of her lover and learnt the name of the spot
43where he then resided. She hesitated some time, but at length she formed her determination. Taking with her some jewels
44that belonged to her and a sum of money, she quitted Italy with an attendant, a native of Leghorn, but who understood
45the common language of Turkey, and departed for Germany. "She arrived in safety at a town about twenty leagues from the
46cottage of De Lacey, when her attendant fell dangerously ill. Safie nursed her with the most devoted affection, but the
47poor girl died, and the Arabian was left alone, unacquainted with the language of the country and utterly ignorant of
48the customs of the world. She fell, however, into good hands. The Italian had mentioned the name of the spot for which
49they were bound, and after her death the woman of the house in which they had lived took care that Safie should arrive
50in safety at the cottage of her lover." Chapter 15 "Such was the history of my beloved cottagers. It impressed me
51deeply. I learned, from the views of social life which it developed, to admire their virtues and to deprecate the vices
52of mankind. "As yet I looked upon crime as a distant evil, benevolence and generosity were ever present before me,
53inciting within me a desire to become an actor in the busy scene where so many admirable qualities were called forth and
54displayed. But in giving an account of the progress of my intellect, I must not omit a circumstance which occurred in
55the beginning of the month of August of the same year. "One night during my accustomed visit to the neighbouring wood
56where I collected my own food and brought home firing for my protectors, I found on the ground a leathern portmanteau
57containing several articles of dress and some books. I eagerly seized the prize and returned with it to my hovel.
58Fortunately the books were written in the language, the elements of which I had acquired at the cottage; they consisted
59of Paradise Lost, a volume of Plutarch's Lives, and the Sorrows of Werter. The possession of these treasures gave me
60extreme delight; I now continually studied and exercised my mind upon these histories, whilst my friends were employed
61in their ordinary occupations. "I can hardly describe to you the effect of these books. They produced in me an infinity
62of new images and feelings, that sometimes raised me to ecstasy, but more frequently sunk me into the lowest dejection.
63In the Sorrows of Werter, besides the interest of its simple and affecting story, so many opinions are canvassed and so
64many lights thrown upon what had hitherto been to me obscure subjects that I found in it a never-ending source of
65speculation and astonishment. The gentle and domestic manners it described, combined with lofty sentiments and feelings,
66which had for their object something out of self, accorded well with my experience among my protectors and with the
67wants which were for ever alive in my own bosom. But I thought Werter himself a more divine being than I had ever beheld
68or imagined; his character contained no pretension, but it sank deep. The disquisitions upon death and suicide were
69calculated to fill me with wonder. I did not pretend to enter into the merits of the case, yet I inclined towards the
70opinions of the hero, whose extinction I wept, without precisely understanding it.
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