"My imagination was incessantly pursued by the image of this youth, perishing alone, and in obscurity; calling on the name of distant friends, or invoking, ineffectually, the succour of those who are near"
Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 [First Part]
First part published in 1799; second in 1800. Reading and transcribing text from Charles Brockden Brown,  <u>Three Gothic Novels</u>. New York: Library of America,1998.