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 duced her departed husband to forbid his daughter, on his death-bed, to marry the man of her choice, though he had not only never had the least objection against that union, but also had always looked upon it with the greatest satisfaction. Volkert promised to take the matter into consideration, and answered, some days after, that the deceased himself must be applied to.

The poor girl was very much frightened at this declaration, however, the hope of being at last united to the darling of her lovesick heart, revived her spirits, and she consented at length to suffer the rest of her parent to be disturbed. The mother refused for a considerable time to consent to it, however, at last she agreed to Volkert's proposal, and the day, or rather the night, for the execution of the conjuration was fixed.—The mother, added the Austrian, has related to me the whole transaction, and I will let her speak herself.