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 sent by a wagon to Stutgard, only nine miles from my house, and then quitted the village together on horseback, until they came to the next town, where they took a chaise to the small Hamlet adjoining to my Park, from whence they dispatched the note to me that I have already mentioned. Thus, Sir, I have briefly repeated what Eugenia related to me.

"You may judge of my transports in thus unexpectedly recovering the woman I adored, and to find she was not more than a nominal wife to the man I had detested. My raptures soon removed every doubt she had expressed of my affection, and brought her to confess, that the death of her father having released her from those vows, passion and prejudice had compelled her to make, she no longer scrupled to become my wife, as she could in no light think the ceremony binding which had passed between the Baron and herself.—All that now remained to be decided upon, was our future residence, for although I would not have hesitated a moment to have asserted