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and then looked at each other, but both were silent: Agnes, however, made her observations without ceremony, at the same time qualifying her first exclamations by saying, that 'when she had been a few days in the place she would give things another sort of countenance.' I shall not trouble you with our proceedings, to render it a little comfortable, we all exerted our endeavours, and the fourth day after our arrival, I had the happiness of being united to my loved Eugenia in the village church, she dressed in the plainest garb belonging to Agnes, and myself in a great coat. I then ventured to the village, and procured a boy to assist Agnes in the domestic business, and she proposed sending for Arnulph: It was doubtless a presentiment that made me shudder when she mentioned it; but we were too much obliged to her, and indeed too much in her power to refuse her request, and had really a strong affection for her that would not admit of an objection to her being equally happy with ourselves; we therefore con-