and defended my rights in the face of the world, yet her timid mind shrunk from the idea of being the public theme, or of hazarding any revengeful machinations naturally dreaded from the Baron.
I proposed going to France or England to reside, unhappily she objected, unacquainted with the language, and dreading the eye of observation, knowing that the Baron talked of travelling, she was fearful some unlucky chance might throw him in our way, she therefore wished to reside for some time in a profound retirement. Although I was still of an opinion that we should be much safer in a foreign country, yet finding her repugnance to that plan was not easily to be overcome, and being naturally of a studious disposition myself, and fond of domestic comforts, certain that in the society of my loved Eugenia, I could feel no wish for the amusements and trifling conversations which engage the frivolous part of mankind, I consented without reluctance to her desire of retirement. In our solitude I determined to
