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made that road his favourite ride, in order to enjoy the happiness of seeing her at her window. She had not the most distant idea that he was the person who had rendered her so essential a service; and she, therefore, concluded, that no being was acquainted with the shame to which, as it afterward appeared, the villany of her confessor had exposed her. The gentle- man's addresses were, therefore favourably received, and she was soon afterwards united to him. About twelve months after their marriage, she was about to present him with the first pledge of their love: and every anxious preparation was made for the event. But her caprices were so many and so great, that they outran the tenderest solicitude; and after having in vain, endeavoured to satisfy every strange fancy and whim, with all the devotion which the most indulgent of husbands could evince, he was at last prevoked beyond patience to exclaim, that “she had been much less scrupulous when he assisted her in the vineyard." This indiscreet and unlucky sarcasm, at so critical a moment, had a fatal effect; it threw her into violent convulsions, under which she expired, leaving him long to lament the imprudence and rash irritation of a mom- ent.