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Rh “England the Civilizer.” (Published in 1847.)

In 1831, the sister who had so long been her companion died in Paris, and she was left bereft of all near family ties. It was seven years later that she took what seems to have proved a most disastrous step for her happiness, in marrying her old-time friend, M. Phiquepal D’Arusmont, whose acquaintance she first formed at New Harmony, where he was a teacher of some new system of education, and of whom in her fragmentary autobiography she speaks in the most enthusiastic and laudatory manner. How long they lived happily together I do not know, but they did so at least until 1844, when that autobiography was first written, and published in the Dundee Northern Star. She was then on a visit to Scotland for the purpose of settling the accounts of some property to which she had fallen heir by the death of a cousin of her father. I think that they must have separated soon after their return to America from that