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and converse with her, that he might know what progress she had made in her education. Being afterwards removed to another convent, still under the protection of that prince, she fell from a window, and receiving a violent stroke on the head, occasioned a long disorder which attacked her. Her life was despaired of, but by the kind assistance of her noble patron she was considerably relieved. It is impossible to express the melancholy reflections of this unhappy girl, on being, by the death of the prince, left weak and languishing, without either relation or friend to take care of her among these strangers; at the same time, in case of her recovering, she foresaw what neglect, and how many mortifications she must undergo, from persons who had no prospect of being repaid their advances on her account.
It was in these disagreeable circumstances that I saw her the first time, in November 1752. They hardly were mended, when le Blanc had recovered as much strength as to be able to come herself to tell me, that the Duke of Orleans, the inheritor of his father's virtues, had undertaken to pay the nine months board that had fallen due for
