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The death of her father and mother in the saerous circumstances attendant on youth

and beauty She was fond of cohted with admiration, yet

disdainful of the opinion of the world, when it happened to contradict

her inclinations; had a gay and brilliant wit, and was mistress of

all the arts of fascination Her conduct was such as ht have been

expected, froth of her

passions

A her numerous admirers was the late Marquis de Villeroi, who, on

his tour through Italy, saw Laurentini at Venice, where she usually

resided, and becaure and accomplishments of the Marquis, as at that period one of

the uished noblemen of the French court, she had the art so

effectually to conceal froerous traits of her character

and the blemishes of her late conduct, that he solicited her hand in

e

Before the nuptials were concluded, she retired to the castle of

Udolpho, whither the Marquis followed, and, where her conduct, relaxing

from the propriety, which she had lately assumed, discovered to him

the precipice, on which he stood A ht it necessary to make, convinced him, that he had been deceived

in her character, and she, whoned for his wife, afterwards

beca passed some weeks at Udolpho, he was called abruptly to France,