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 "After some time, she perceived a coldness in his attentions, and a profound melancholy in his looks, for which he assigned no cause, and pretended it was her fancy only; but being convinced, she said, that his dejection must spring from a new attachment, as he was daily more negligent towards her.—She had him carefully watched, and at length discovered that he was passionately in love with a young lady, on a visit to his wife, who, being of family, and virtuous, repulsed him, though it was believed she was equally attached.

"My mother, made desperate by this discovery, gave his wife information of the attachment, and driven to despair, in a fit of madness and jealousy, she accepted the protection of a German officer, who had long persecuted her with his addresses, and accompanied by me and my nurse, quitted Baden for ever, without deigning to see or to reproach him.

"With this officer she resided some years; and although she had a daughter by him, she