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Paris with its seductions netted the good doctor, and held him two or
three months; would have detained him longer, but for alarming accounts
the baroness sent of Josephine's health. These determined him to return
to Beaurepaire; and, must I own it, the announcement was no longer
hailed at Beaurepaire with universal joy as heretofore.
Josephine Raynal, late Dujardin, is by this time no stranger to my
intelligent reader. I wish him to bring his knowledge of her character
and her sensibility to my aid. Imagine, as the weary hours and days and
weeks roll over her head, what this loving woman feels for her lover
whom she has dismissed; what this grateful wife feels for the benefactor
she has unwittingly wronged; but will never wrong with her eyes open;
what this lady pure as snow, and proud as fire, feels at the seeming
frailty into which a cruel combination of circumstances has entrapped
her.
Put down the book a moment: shut your eyes: and imagine this strange and
complicated form of human suffering.
Her mental sufferings were terrible; and for some time Rose feared for
her reason.
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