Catharine's Peril, Or the Little Russian Girl Lost in a Forest
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this awful fire not only deprived us of a great part of ourfortune, but, far worse, of her who formed our chief joy, our cherisheddaughter. Amid the frightful panic that prevailed, whilst my wife and Iendeavoured to save some of our most valuable effects from the rage ofthe devouring element, we lost our only child, then in her seventh year. Her nurse had taken her for safety to a house situated in a by-streetoccupied by a friend of ours, where the fire had not yet reached; butboth the child an...d the nurse disappeared, and since this melancholycatastrophe all our numerous and anxious inquiries respecting them haveproved utterly fruitless. Probably they were killed by a fallingedifice, and so buried in its ruins; at least, this is my opinion, formy dear wife still has the hope of again beholding our long-lost butdearly cherished child. ' Catharine, who had listened with the most heartfelt interest to thistouching recital, could not restrain her emotions any longer. She threwherself on the stranger's neck, exclaiming, 'My father, my dear father!' It was a most affecting moment.
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