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ADVENTURES OF MRS. CHRISTIAN DAVIES.
addresses to her. Her esteem for him caused her for
two years to resist his solicitations on account of her
poverty. This affection on her part was repaid with the
blackest ingratitude ; he availed himself of it, when time
and opportunity favoured bis purpose, to seduce her;
after which, notwithstanding all his vows of eternal con-
stancy and marriage, he abandoned her to lament her
credulity and imprudence. Her grief on this occasion
was such that it had a visible effect on her health, and
when her mother enquired the cause, her only reply was
a request to leave her house. This was readily complied
with, and she was sent to her aunt, who kept a public-
house in Dublin. Here she recovered her cheerfulness,
and lived upwards of four years with her aunt: who at
her death left her sole heiress to her property and
business.
It was not long after this accession of fortune that she
married a young man named Richard Welsh, who had
been waiter to her aunt, and remained with her in the
same capacity. With him she passed four happy years,
during which she brought him two boys. She was preg-
nant of her third child, when her husband having one
day gone to pay the brewer a sum of money, failed to
return. Notwithstanding all her enquiries the only intel-
ligence she could obtain concerning him was, that a
gentleman was seen in his company when he paid the
brewer, and that they went away together. The only
conclusion she could draw from this extraordinary circum-
stance was, that he had been privately murdered.
A year had somewhat mollified her grief for his loss,
when she was surprized with the receipt of a letter from
him, in which he related how he had been inveigled and
carried, while intoxicated, on board a vessel with recruits,
in which he was conveyed to join the army in Flanders.
She now conceived the idea of going to seek him out, and
having
ADVENTURES OF MRS. CHRISTIAN DAVIES.
addresses to her. Her esteem for him caused her for
two years to resist his solicitations on account of her
poverty. This affection on her part was repaid with the
blackest ingratitude ; he availed himself of it, when time
and opportunity favoured bis purpose, to seduce her;
after which, notwithstanding all his vows of eternal con-
stancy and marriage, he abandoned her to lament her
credulity and imprudence. Her grief on this occasion
was such that it had a visible effect on her health, and
when her mother enquired the cause, her only reply was
a request to leave her house. This was readily complied
with, and she was sent to her aunt, who kept a public-
house in Dublin. Here she recovered her cheerfulness,
and lived upwards of four years with her aunt: who at
her death left her sole heiress to her property and
business.
It was not long after this accession of fortune that she
married a young man named Richard Welsh, who had
been waiter to her aunt, and remained with her in the
same capacity. With him she passed four happy years,
during which she brought him two boys. She was preg-
nant of her third child, when her husband having one
day gone to pay the brewer a sum of money, failed to
return. Notwithstanding all her enquiries the only intel-
ligence she could obtain concerning him was, that a
gentleman was seen in his company when he paid the
brewer, and that they went away together. The only
conclusion she could draw from this extraordinary circum-
stance was, that he had been privately murdered.
A year had somewhat mollified her grief for his loss,
when she was surprized with the receipt of a letter from
him, in which he related how he had been inveigled and
carried, while intoxicated, on board a vessel with recruits,
in which he was conveyed to join the army in Flanders.
She now conceived the idea of going to seek him out, and
having