With sails abaft, the engine stopt, the vessel remained unwillingly stationary, until, after an hour’s search, my poor Perdita was brought on board.  But no care could re-animate her, no medicine cause her dear eyes to open, and the blood to flow again from her pulseless heart.  One clenched hand contained a slip of paper, on which was written, “To Athens.”  To ensure her removal thither, and prevent the irrecoverable loss of her body in the wide sea, she had had the precaution to fasten a long shawl round her waist, and again to the staunchions of the cabin window.  She had drifted somewhat under the keel of the vessel, and her being out of sight occasioned the delay in finding her.  And thus the ill-starred girl died a victim to my senseless rashness.  Thus, in early day, she left us for the company of the dead, and preferred to share the rocky grave of Raymond, before the animated scene this cheerful earth afforded, and the society of loving friends.  Thus in her twenty-ninth year she died; having enjoyed some few years of the happiness of paradise, and sustaining a reverse to which her impatient spirit and affectionate disposition were unable to submit.  As I marked the placid expression that had settled on her countenance in death, I felt, in spite of the pangs of remorse, in spite of heart-rending regret, that it was better to die so, than to drag on long, miserable years of repining and inconsolable grief.  Stress of weather drove us up the Adriatic Gulph; and, our vessel being hardly fitted to weather a storm, we took refuge in the port of Ancona.  Here I met Georgio Palli, the vice-admiral of the Greek fleet, a former friend and warm partizan of Raymond.  I committed the remains of my lost Perdita to his care, for the purpose of having them transported to Hymettus, and placed in the cell her Raymond already occupied beneath the pyramid.  This was all accomplished even as I wished.  She reposed beside her beloved, and the tomb above was inscribed with the united names of Raymond and Perdita.

I then came to a resolution of pursuing our journey to England overland.  My own heart was racked by regrets and remorse.  The apprehension, that Raymond had departed for ever, that his name, blended eternally with the past, must be erased from every anticipation of the future, had come slowly upon me.  I had always admired his talents; his noble aspirations; his grand conceptions of the glory and majesty of his ambition:  his utter want of mean passions; his fortitude and daring.  In Greece I had learnt to love him; his very waywardness, and self-abandonment to the impulses of superstition, attached me to him doubly; it might be weakness, but it was the antipodes of all that was grovelling and selfish.  To these pangs were added the loss of Perdita, lost through my own accursed self-will and conceit.  This dear one, my sole relation; whose progress I had marked from tender childhood through the varied path of life, and seen her throughout conspicuous for integrity,