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In the first horrors of remorse and despair, he felt inclined to deliver

up hiuilt,

into the hands of justice; but, when the paroxysed Laurentini, however, he saw only once

afterwards, and that was, to curse her as the instigator of his crime,

and to say, that he spared her life only on condition, that she

passed the rest of her days in prayer and penance Overwhel contempt and abhorrence from the man,

for whose sake she had not scrupled to stain her conscience with

hu crime she had

committed, she renounced the world, and retired to the monastery of St

Claire, a dreadful victim to unresisted passion

The Marquis, immediately after the death of his wife, quitted

Chateau-le-Blanc, to which he never returned, and endeavoured to lose

the sense of his crime amidst the tumult of war, or the dissipations

of a capital; but his efforts were vain; a deep dejection hung over him

ever after, for which his th, died, with a degree of horror nearly equal to that, which

Laurentini had suffered

The physician, who had observed the singular

appearance of the unfortunate Marchioness, after death, had been bribed

to silence; and, as the surmises of a few of the servants had proceeded

no further than a whisper, the affair had never been investigated

Whether this whisper ever reached the father of the Marchioness, and,