effrontery of his proposals with justly severe language, he laid aside

the entreaties which he had employed at first, and began to use

violence. But just Heaven, that seldom fails to watch over and aid

good intentions, so aided mine that with my slight strength and with

little exertion I pushed him over a precipice, where I left him,

whether dead or alive I know not; and then, with greater speed than

seemed possible in my terror and fatigue, I made my way into the

mountains, without any other thought or purpose save that of hiding