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40 also expire, before his eyes. He was a good man, and performed the last duties, and wrote not only to the abbess, but to a Mr. Glentworth in England, with whom, he had reason to believe, the late Mr. Delemaine was nearly connected. Finding upon the corpse more money than was required for the funeral, he transmitted it to the abbess, together with a small valise, containing, besides apparel, some trifling articles of jewellery, and the bracelet transmitted to you, which was wrapped in paper, on which was written—'Miniature of my sainted wife.' "About two months afterwards, a person arrived from England, saying he was a trustee, and empowered by the will of my late father to settle my accounts, and remove me from the convent. In a short time, weeping, and almost senseless, I was literally torn from the happy seclusion (to which I but lately returned), and accompanied Mr. Barrow first to Rome, then to Marseilles, and soon afterwards to England. He always placed me under female care as soon as we arrived at a new place, and was extremely kind in causing me to be shewn every thing remarkable; and after a while I began to enjoy the novelties, and enter into the new gaieties which courted my attention. I ceased to regret the convent, though I continued to love the nuns, and I believed that my vocation was for the