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 of this disclosure, they determined to send her to a convent in Dauphine, and lodge her there till they could hear of a respectable family who would receive her as a boarder, and under whose protection she could with safety and propriety again enjoy some of the pleasures of life. Under the care of proper attendants she commenced her journey; but how great was the horror, the consternation of the Countess and Madame D'Alembert, when those attendants returned to inform them, that from the inn where they had stopped for the night, she had eloped.

The idea of her having eloped was not for an instant conceived either by the Countess or Madame D'Alembert; they knew the innocence of the unhappy girl—they knew her total ignorance of all with whom they were not acquainted, and suspicion immediately glanced at D'Alembert: they hesitated not to inform him of that suspicion; they did more—they declared their positive