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Tue time had now come when Margaret's darling wish was to be fulfilled. An opportunity of going abroad offered itself under circumstances which she felt able to accept. On the 1st of August, 1816, she sailed for Europe in the Cambria, then the favourite steamer of the Cunard line, with. Captain Judkins, the most popular and best known of the company's commanders. Her travelling companions were Mr and Mrs. Marcus Spring, of Eaglewood, N. J.

She anticipated much from this journey,--delight, instruction, and the bodily view of a whole world of beauties which she knew, as yet, only ideally. Beyond and unguessed lay the mysteries of fate, from whose depths she was never to emerge in her earthly form.