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Excerpt from The Romance of the Forest, Vol. 1 of 2: Interspersed With Some Pieces of Poetry
Early in life he had married Constance Va lentin, a beautiful and elegant woman, attached to her family, and belove by them. Her birth was'cqual, her fortune superior to his; and their nuptials had been celebrated under the'auspices of an approving and ¿attering world. Her heart was devoted to La Motte, and, for some time, she found in him an affectionate husband; but allured by the yeties of Paris, he was soon devoted to it uxuries and in a few years his fortune and a eetion were equally lost in dissipation. A false pride had still operated against his interest, and withheldhim from hon orebic retreat while if was yet in his power: the habits, which he hadacquired, enchained him to the scene of his former pleasure; and thus he had continued an expensive -tyle of life till the means nf prolonging? Were exhausted. He at length awoke from lethargy of security but it was onl to plunge into new error, and to attempt se mes for the reparation of his for tune, which served to sink him deeper in des traction. The consequence of a transaction, ia which he was thus engaged, new drove him with the small wreck of his property. Into dan.
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