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Rh this incident: "There was one curious coincidence that occurred shortly before her death, which would do the heart of an astrologer good, as going to show, ‘There is a Divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we may,' and that certain persons are brought into juxtaposition by an irresistible destiny. Madame D’Arusmont was walking through one of the streets of Cincinnati when a slight layer of ice rendered the footing precarious. It afterward appeared that M. D’Arusmont was also at the same moment making his way through a parallel street, and on a line with herself. Both fell at the same moment—she broke her thigh, and he broke his wrist.”

In “Half-hours with Freethinkers” I find this succinct account of her death:

“Madame D'Arusmont died suddenly in Cincinnati, on Tuesday, December 14, 1852. She had been for some time unwell, in consequence of a fall upon the ice, the previous winter, which broke her thigh, and probably hastened her decease, but the im-