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sensibly, and had gained a considerable height be- 
fore he knew it had commenced ; and he was soon too 
far engaged to be able to retreat. Although a French- 
man, he did not attempt to gain her but by the most 
honourable means. They were married, and lived 
happily for five years in Genoa, when his fortune ha- 
ving ina great measure recovered the damages of his 
early difsipation, he returned to court, where his lady 
fluttered in all the gaiety and splendor of Versailles, 
with so much dignity, that no one could have sus- 
pected fhe had been taken from a station so much 
below him. The base attempts of his most intimate 
- friend to seduce her, fhe discovered to her hufband, 
ae. 
who was killed in a duel he fought to punilh the de- 
' sign upon his honour. His creditors seizing every 
thing he had in the world, fhe was abandoned by his 
relations, and retired to this farm, which her father, 
when dying, had left to her, his only child. Here the 
now lives in easy plenty, beloved and ee by 
all the neighbourhood. 
‘Lady A. B. married her father’s footman ; and in 
ten years sunk te be a very good wife to the driver 
of a mail coach, on a great road, not one hundred 
miles from London. 
Mr W. married his maid servant. She drefses as 
i well as his wife fhould do; but fhe wants that ease 
and grace which are so rarely acquired in advanced 
_ life, and is every hour betraying her low original 
by remains of her pristine rusticity ; while the hus- 
band, who in information and knowledge, is far supc- 
