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L0UI8A, OR EADY OF THE HAY-STACK.
Jier youth and figure, civilly offered her the use of his best
bed, and a small room, which she accepted.
Her fears not suffering her to continue so near Ham-
burgh, she quitted her disinterested host, who refused to
accept any remuneration for his kindness. Mounting a
wretched carriage, she then took the road towards Swe-
den, but the third day of her journey, she fell from the
vehicle, and received such a dangerous wound in her
head, that it was found necessary to take her to a neigh-
bouring inn, and to call in the assistance of a surgeon.
A Dutch family happened to stop at this inn on their
way to Pomerania and Sweden. These people defrayed
the expences of her cure, and permitted her to join their
party. She mentioned the names of these Hollanders,
and likewise that of a Lutheran clergyman, who was
with them, (and who, when this narrative made its appear-
ance, was tutor to the children of a merchant at Ham-
burgh.) On her arrival at Stockholm, she quitted her
fellow-travellers, and took a lodging at the house of a
German woman, whose husband held a small post under
the government. Fortunately for the stranger, this wo-
man was a person of great integrity, and conceived the
strongest attachment for her. During Mademoiselle La
Friilen’s residence here, she was one day informed by
her hair-dresser, that the Count Belgioioso, the imperial
ambassador at Stockholm, was making strict enquiries
after a young lady who had eloped from Hamburgh. La
Friilen, who began to form some idea of the conse-
quences of her Hight, and was more terrified by the ap-
prehensions of poverty than the thoughts of a convent,
declared that she was the person, and permitted her in-
formant to make this discovery to the ambassador. The
following day she received a note from the Count, invit-
ing her to his house. This note was read to her by a girl
who attended on her, named Sophia, and she did not
hesitate
L0UI8A, OR EADY OF THE HAY-STACK.
Jier youth and figure, civilly offered her the use of his best
bed, and a small room, which she accepted.
Her fears not suffering her to continue so near Ham-
burgh, she quitted her disinterested host, who refused to
accept any remuneration for his kindness. Mounting a
wretched carriage, she then took the road towards Swe-
den, but the third day of her journey, she fell from the
vehicle, and received such a dangerous wound in her
head, that it was found necessary to take her to a neigh-
bouring inn, and to call in the assistance of a surgeon.
A Dutch family happened to stop at this inn on their
way to Pomerania and Sweden. These people defrayed
the expences of her cure, and permitted her to join their
party. She mentioned the names of these Hollanders,
and likewise that of a Lutheran clergyman, who was
with them, (and who, when this narrative made its appear-
ance, was tutor to the children of a merchant at Ham-
burgh.) On her arrival at Stockholm, she quitted her
fellow-travellers, and took a lodging at the house of a
German woman, whose husband held a small post under
the government. Fortunately for the stranger, this wo-
man was a person of great integrity, and conceived the
strongest attachment for her. During Mademoiselle La
Friilen’s residence here, she was one day informed by
her hair-dresser, that the Count Belgioioso, the imperial
ambassador at Stockholm, was making strict enquiries
after a young lady who had eloped from Hamburgh. La
Friilen, who began to form some idea of the conse-
quences of her Hight, and was more terrified by the ap-
prehensions of poverty than the thoughts of a convent,
declared that she was the person, and permitted her in-
formant to make this discovery to the ambassador. The
following day she received a note from the Count, invit-
ing her to his house. This note was read to her by a girl
who attended on her, named Sophia, and she did not
hesitate