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that she fell desperately in love with Guibcrt while she 

 was carrying on her affair with Mora. Guibert, more 

 w r ary and more experienced, avoided the snare. The 

 Spaniard was completely caught; and being ordered 

 home by his family, fell ill, as was said, from the excess 

 of his passion. She obtained an opinion of Lorry, the 

 famous physician, that the air of France was necessary for 

 his recovery; and his family yielding to this representa- 

 tion, he set out for Paris, but died on the way. Not- 

 withstanding her passion for Guibert, which had been 

 intercalated as it were, she is said to have taken Mora's 

 death so much to heart, that her excitable and feeble 

 frame could not stand against the shock, and she died 

 about two years after, in May 1776. 



Now, strange as it must seem to all men of right and 

 honourable feelings, D'Alembert was so completely the 

 dupe of his passion for her, that she made him the con- 

 fidant of hers for Mora. Nay, he was sent every morn- 

 ing to the post-office for his absent and favoured rival's 

 letters, that he might have them ready on her awaken- 

 ing. Nay, further, the opinion of Lorry which recalled 

 him, was obtained through the solicitation of D'Alembert, 

 the Doctor's intimate friend; and he wrote the most 

 tender letter to Mora's father, condoling upon the young 

 man's death. Marmontel sets all this down to the 

 account of his extreme devotion to his mistress, and the 

 great simplicity of his character. But this assumes that 

 he believed her to be really in love with Mora. D'Alem- 

 bert's own account is entirely different. In his 'Address 

 to her Manes,' and his ' Address at her Tomb,' we find 

 him distinctly complaining that she had deceived him, 

 and made him believe for eight years and upwards that 



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