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 suggest, he had assailed the Abbe with, and he fairly repeated them all. "Now, added he, "attend, Louisa, to my objections; let reason and dispassionate judgment direct you. I have, I own, very reluctantly, been compelled by an eloquence I could neither silence nor resist, to promise an acquiescence with your determination. Consider well, therefore, before you give your final answer, in which my peace and your own is so deeply involved."

He then represented the disgrace and attendant disagreeable consequences to me, which must inevitably wait on a private marriage; the pain which must follow the disapprobation of our friends—the possible repentance and coldness of my husband, when passion subsided; and he found himself an alien from his family, and reflected on the sacrifices he had made to love. In fine, the Abbe said enough to have convinced the reason of a prudent young woman, and to make even a thoughtless one deliberate on the rash step suggested to her by the impetuous pas-