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essential to the interests of the Viscountess, she could not see him ; 
and she required that he should give her his word of honour that 
he would not request her to come but upon that condition. He 
answered that he would not commit the Viscountess and that he 
hoped in a short time to be able to write. Everything being 
arranged, I urged Mrs. Damer to take the Viscountess from Bath ; 
assuring them that I would undertake to superintend the funeral of 
the Viscount and to arrange her affairs. They accordingly set 
out accompanied by Mademoiselle Tournou and the whole 
equipage. The next day the coroner’s jury sat, and declared in 
their verdict that the death of the Viscount was a homicide 
occasioned by a quarrel in the heat of passion. The consequences 
were no longer to be feared by Count de Rice, nor by the seconds. 
I saw the former several times, and he acquainted me with every- 
thing which it was necessary for the Viscountess to know. I set 
out for London, and arrived there time enough to inform her of 
them before her departure for France, whither Mrs. Damer 
ré-conducted her. Some days after this I saw Mr. Toole, who had 
restored to the Viscountess the pocket book and purse of her 
husband before she left Bath. He informed me of some 
particulars relative to the quarrel between the two friends. 
When they sent for him things had gone so far between them 
that no possibility remained of reconciling their differences. They 
did not acquaint him, however, with the cause of their quarrel, 
but he did not doubt that it took its origin in the jealousy which 
the Viscount had conceived of his friend, though he was very far 
from imputing to the Viscountess or having ever given the least 
occasion for it. Since that time I have had frequent opportunities 
of conversing with Count de Rice upon the subject of this 
unfortunate affair. He assured me that the true reason of their 
quarrel was a discovery which he had that morning made of a 
design to poison him formed by the Viscount; upon which I 
represented to him that he had better be silent relative to that 
reason, for in the impossibility there was of bringing proof of such 
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