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 honour, even in that awful hour, persisted in denying his marriage with me, to his father.

The Count's death was concealed from my father; and though he anxiously wished to see me, yet he would not consent that I should be acquainted with his situation.—The young Count and his family left Ulm on the same day the father died. It was above ten days after this event, before an application was made to the Bishop, for an order to the Abbess to liberate me, which was easily obtained; for the Bishop was nearly related to the Wolfran family, and wished to have the affair as little known or talked of as possible. Therefore the duel was generally supposed to have originated from a military quarrel, and the son's name not mentioned in the business."

This was the information that I received from my beloved parent. Alas! bitter were my self-reproaches; he was wounded both in mind and body; his situation afforded him no means of providing for himself or me; I could adduce no proofs of my marriage, and