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402 PERSONS RESTORED TO TIE®.
gic stupor. She felt the magnitude of the debt she owed
to her deliverer; the love she had continued to entertain
for him was the most powerful advocate. She recovered,
and thinking that her life belonged bv right to him who
had preserved it, they went to England, where they
lived several years in the most affectionate union.
Being inspired, at the end often years, with a desire of
revisiting their native land, they returned to Paris, and
took no precaution to disguise themselves, under the per-
suasion that no one could possibly suspect what had hap-
pened. By mere accident the banker met. his wife in a
public promenade. The sight of her made such a power-
ful impression on him, that the persuasion of her death
could not erase it. He contrived to join her, and not-
withstanding the language she held in order to deceive
him, he left her more than persuaded that she was really
the woman whose loss he hud mourned.
The strangeness of the circumstances having given the
woman charms which she had never before had in the
eyes of the banker, he discovered her residence at Paris,
in spite Of the precautions she had taken to conceai it,
and preferred a judicial claim to her person.
In vain the lover urged the. rights which be had ac-
quired by his cares to his mistress, in vain he represented
that bad it not been for him, she must have died; that
his opponent had divested himself of all his rights by
interring her, that he might even be accused of homi-
cfde for having neglected to take proper precautions to
ascertain her death ; in vain he advanced a thousand other
reasons furnished by ingenious love. Finding that the
court inclined to the opposite side, he resolved not to
wait for the termination of the cause, but repaired with
his mistress to a foreign country, where they ended their
days in peace.
Cesarien&is relates a story of a robber who had been
hanged,
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gic stupor. She felt the magnitude of the debt she owed
to her deliverer; the love she had continued to entertain
for him was the most powerful advocate. She recovered,
and thinking that her life belonged bv right to him who
had preserved it, they went to England, where they
lived several years in the most affectionate union.
Being inspired, at the end often years, with a desire of
revisiting their native land, they returned to Paris, and
took no precaution to disguise themselves, under the per-
suasion that no one could possibly suspect what had hap-
pened. By mere accident the banker met. his wife in a
public promenade. The sight of her made such a power-
ful impression on him, that the persuasion of her death
could not erase it. He contrived to join her, and not-
withstanding the language she held in order to deceive
him, he left her more than persuaded that she was really
the woman whose loss he hud mourned.
The strangeness of the circumstances having given the
woman charms which she had never before had in the
eyes of the banker, he discovered her residence at Paris,
in spite Of the precautions she had taken to conceai it,
and preferred a judicial claim to her person.
In vain the lover urged the. rights which be had ac-
quired by his cares to his mistress, in vain he represented
that bad it not been for him, she must have died; that
his opponent had divested himself of all his rights by
interring her, that he might even be accused of homi-
cfde for having neglected to take proper precautions to
ascertain her death ; in vain he advanced a thousand other
reasons furnished by ingenious love. Finding that the
court inclined to the opposite side, he resolved not to
wait for the termination of the cause, but repaired with
his mistress to a foreign country, where they ended their
days in peace.
Cesarien&is relates a story of a robber who had been
hanged,
p - -