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Rh tory, as portrayed by the Italian Bocca. From that moment she woke to a new existence. Life was full of promise; the world a theater of interesting observation and useful exertion. There existed a country consecrated to Freedom, and in which man might awake to the full knowledge and full exercise of his powers.”

Henceforth, America became her ideal land, a new Utopia in which all wrong would be righted, and all truth triumphant, and she devoured eagerly everything she could learn of its history, heroes, and institutions. To this land, to her so fair in promise, she embarked in 1818, to pursuance of a long-cherished but secret determination, making all her arrangements in regard to her property, etc., unknown to any relative save the sister who accompanied her, and to whom she was devotedly attached. She remained in the United States two years, studying faithfully the institutions, the laws, and the workings of the avowed principles of the young republic.