538 from Isabella to Albert. Nao. 28. 
vain, haughty, and imperious, | Some persons yield- 
-ed to her freaks withjunafsuming-submifsion; others, 
-offended, resented her behaviour. If fhe was not 
idolized, fhe considered it.as an affront ; and the ir- 
ritability of her temper was thus kept perpetually 
on the fret. In public places fhe received unboun- 
ded homage. There alone, the reigned in the fulnefs 
of glory. At home fhe did not obtain the same 
submifsive obeifsance; but, like another mortal, met 
sometimes with opposition, and mortifying contra- 
dictions. Home was therefore an irksome prison 
to her; and all her relations and domestics were 
accounted her tormentors. By a continuance of these 
mortifying interferences, her temper became soured; 
the heavenly exprefsion of her countenance gradual- 
dy went off ; and with it, while fhe was but very 
young, the beauty that had so highly attracted every 
body, begam to disappear. Young men, tired of that 
imperious sway fhe seemed : desirous of exercising, 
‘kept aloof from her. She was at last courted by a 
stranger, who, after a better acquaintance, left her 
in no very handsome manner. Every one now for- 
sook her; and before fhe had attained the age of 
‘thirty, the was deserted by the men, and criticised 
by all the women. She was .as an outcast on the 
earth, without a friend on whom the could rely, and 
without a comforter to mitigate the pains of life. 
At last fhe married a man undeserving ef her, who 
courted her for the money fhe had; and fhe has since 
sunk into the most mortifying state of neglect. 
“How often have I wifhed it had been in my power 
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