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rai ^ hfc allowed remain with rhe . Oil Entering th ^ t * ora , she otbrew herself in an impassioned manner dowfi < ta * er knees and begged that we might not be separated . The Colonel smiled , and telling her to rise , granted our request ; thetv turning round to me , he said , in a good-natured manned , * AfSSak : Q care ydu use her well *—she deserves it ! " " -.:
We now fancied ourselves , in a great measure , protected ; bat she was again pursued by her father , who one da ^ V ; ery unceremoniously rushed into our cottage and desired thdt shfe would retiirn with him . She immediately flew to me fof Jfer ^ - tection , and throwing hef arms around me , exclaimed " Moh
Edouard ! Je ne te quitterai jamais ! " Her father , aft * if seized with a sudden fit of despair or phrenzy , laid hold df a hammer that lay on the table and struck himself violently on the forehead ; the blow was a heavy one ; he fell , and remained for some time insensible on the floor . The distress '
df'Airgustine cannot be imagined ; but after this we were not ag&ih molested , and lived for many months happily and comfortably together * About the end of June 1817 , when we were etieamped at Cambray , she gave birth to a child ; and befdrfe t& baptism we were privately married ; but the child ^ a littlfe gif l- ^ died at the age of three months . I may nientiori tfiit
the Duke of Wellington had given a positive order tfifft British soldiers were not to marry French women . About twelve months , it may be rather more , after this , our regimeitti , being , still at Cambray , received orders to proceed td England ^ and then Colonel Leach , who had hitherto been kind to us both , but did not know that we were married , sent for me fa Mtii
and informed me that she must return to her friends ; that » hfe would certainly not be permitted to embark with me . Wfe nBw consulted together as to what step it would be best to adopt , when it was agreed that I should go to her uncl » and request him to intercede with her father to allow her to Tecteivte patt of her patrimony , for although he could not deprive liter
of it after his death , she was not entitled to receive it diirittg his life-time ; and , if he consented to do so , I promised ID obtain ifay discharge from the army > and openly marry he * Her uncle , after my interview with him , accompanied m ^ t » Mourres , a distance of about three miles , with the intehtion of : i discussing the matter with her father ; but , on tny ^ tiistiint
the house , all was uproar ; a tumult of voices from mil the famil y assailed me , during which one of the brothel * crfctfv f ?; Delie le chien l upon which a huge wolf-dog was unrfmin ^ d ; but instead of attacking me , remembering that i had < eto » Hmdiii the house , he came up and fawned on rtie . Ill tftt ^ inttjlit of ( tKis scene of confusion Augustine entered ; she had httril ttotj Wad gone td her fath ^ s houB ^ and ^ pfweheuiivt t > f th *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 1, 1837, page 223, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1830/page/33/
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