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 a marriage life happy. Thus strengthened in her dislike, which grew more confirmed every day, she concerted with Agnes the plan of her elopement, which was first intended to have been previous to the ceremony; but her father having been in the act of denouncing his malediction against her, if she did not give her hand to Baron S; she was so extremely shocked as to promise unreserved obedience, and in that moment determined to become a sacrifice to her duty.

She retired to her apartment overwhelmed with sorrow, and meeting Agnes, told her, "She now gave up all idea of quitting that house, which henceforth she considered as the tomb of her happiness." This faithful creature (whose untimely death we have never ceased to lament) heard with surprise a resolution, which gave her equal pain; in her zeal to serve Eugenia, she disclosed some particular circumstances relative to her master, displayed his odious character, and cruel dispo-