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upon the Marquis, to who proof of his wife's

infidelity, that, in the frantic rage of wounded honour, he consented to

destroy his wife A slow poison was administered, and she fell a victiuilty weakness of

her husband But the moment of Laurentini's triumph, the moment, to which she had

looked forward for the completion of all her wishes, proved only the

co hour

The passion of revenge, which had in part stimulated her to the

commission of this atrocious deed, died, even at the ratified, and left her to the horrors of unavailing pity and remorse,

which would probably have empoisoned all the years she had promised

herself with the Marquis de Villeroi, had her expectations of an

alliance with him been realized But he, too, had found the e to be that of remorse, as to himself, and detestation, as

to the partner of his cri, which he had mistaken for

conviction, was no hast, that no

proof remained of his wife's infidelity, now that she had suffered the

punish, he

had felt suddenly and unaccountably reassured of her innocence, nor was

the solemn assurance she er conviction of her blameless conduct