Indeed, after serious thinking of these things, I would be melancholy, and sometimes it would last a great while; but I resolved it all at last into thankfulness to that Providence which had delivered me from so many unseen dangers, and had kept me from those mischiefs which I could have no way been the agent in delivering myself from, because I had not the least notion of any such thing depending, or the least supposition of its being possible.
Cuando pensaba seriamente en esto, me sumía en un profundo estado de melancolía que, a veces, duraba mucho tiempo. No obstante, terminaba dando gracias a la Providencia por haberme salvado de tantos peligros invisibles y por haberme protegido de tantas desgracias, de las que no habría podido escapar porque no tenía la menor sospecha de su existencia o de la posibilidad de que ocurriesen.