perfect to be lasting. A most severe & unexpect::ed Blow at once destroyed every Sensation ofPleasure. Convinced as you must be from whatI have already told you concerning Augustus &Sophia, that there never^^werewerew^ere a happier Couple,I need not I imagine^^inform you that their unionhad been contrary to the inclinations of theirCruel & MerceneryParents; who had vainly en::deavoured with obstinate Perseverance to forcethem into a Marriage with those^^whom they had everabhorred; but with an HeroicFortitude worthyto be related & Admired, they had both, constantlyrefused to submit to ^suchthe^ir despotic will Power.

After having so nobly disentangled them::selves from the Shackles of ParentalAutho::rity, by a ClandestineMarriage, they were deter::mined never to forfeit the^^good opinion they hadgained in the World, ⁱⁿby so doing, by acceptingany proposals of reconciliation that might beoffered them by their Fathers — to this farthertryal of their noble independance however theynever were exposed.

They had been married but a few months