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perfect to be lasting. A most severe & unexpect::ed Blow at once
destroyed every Sensation of Pleasure. Convinced as you must be from
whatI have already told you concerning Augustus
&Sophia, that there neverwere were were a happier Couple,I need
not I imagineinform you that their unionhad been contrary to the
inclinations of their Cruel
& Mercenery Parents; who had vainly en::deavoured with obstinate Perseverance to forcethem into a Marriage with thosewhom they had everabhorred; but with an Heroic Fortitude worthyto be related & Admired, they had both,
constantlyrefused to submit to such their despotic will Power.
After having so nobly disentangled them::selves from the Shackles of Parental Autho::rity, by a Clandestine Marriage, they were deter::mined never to forfeit thegood opinion they hadgained in the World, in by so doing, by acceptingany proposals of
reconciliation that might beoffered them by their Fathers — to this farther tryal of their noble independance however
theynever were exposed.
They had been married but a few months