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Ebeling, Christoph Daniel
Vermischte Aufsätze in englischer Prose: hauptsächlich zum Besten derer welche diese Sprache in Rücksicht auf bürgerliche Geschäfte lernen wollen — Hamburg, 1781 [VD18 14320592]

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bracing the body os his son, and bathing it in his tears.
The mother therefore, being thus left alone, went down, and
mixed in the scene, that has been already detcribed, with luA
emotions as it would naturally produce. In the mean time,
sfzrr had been lent sor GiA&Ar<?, a lurgeon in the neigh-
bourhood; G? AioA's wa.s not at home, but his apprentice,
M. came inslantly. Upon examination, he found the
body quite dead; and upon taking off the neckcloth, which
was of black tahety, he law the mark os the cord, and imme-
diately pronunced, that the decealad had been strangled. This
particular had not been toid; for the poor old man, when
jPc/er was going for GvAGb-s, cried out, "Save at leaRthe
honour of my family; do not go and ipread a report that
your brother has made away with himlelf.,,
By this time a crowd of people was gathered about the
door, andoneGz/Az^, with another friend or two os the fa-
mily were come in ; some os thole who were in the Rreet had
heard the cries and exclamations of the father, the mother,
the brother, and his friend, before they knew what was the
matter; and having by lbme means learnt thatyAzzfwzyG<zhj
was luddenly dead, and that the lurgeon who had examined
the body, declared he had been sirangled, they took it into
their heads that he had been murdered; and as his family
%vere ProteRants, they prelently iuppoled that the young man
was about to abjure their religion, and had been put to death
for that realbn. The cries they had heard, they fancied were
thole cf the decealed, while he was resiRing the violence that
was ofsered him. The tumult in the Rreet increased every
moment; lbme laid that ^7z?/wzy Gi/ar was to have abjured
ihe next day; others, that ProteRants are bound by theirre-
ligion to Rrangle or cut the throats of their children, when
they are inclined to become Catholics. Others, who had
found out that G? was in the house when the accident
happened, very conhdently alhrmed, that the ProteRants,
At their laRahembly, appointed a perion to be their common
executioner on thele occahons, and that Ta fTy/i? was the
man, who, in consequence of the oRice to which he had
been appointed, had come to Gz/hsr to hang his son.
The poor father, therefore, who was overwhelmed with
grief for the lols of his child, was adviled by his friends to
send for the oRacer: of juRice, to prevent his being torn to
pieces sor hiving mmdercd him.
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