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extremely violent, since after a period of thirty years I have seen

him affected at the very mention of her name. My mother had a

defense more powerful even than her virtue; she tenderly loved my

father, and conjured him to return; his inclination seconding his

request, he gave up every prospect of emolument, and hastened to

Geneva.



* They were too brilliant for her situation, the minister, her

father, having bestowed great pains on her education. She was taught

drawing, singing, and to play on the theorbo; had learning, and

wrote very agreeable verses. The following is an extempore piece which

she composed in the absence of her husband and brother, in a

conversation with some person relative to them, while walking with her

sister-in-law, and their two children:



Ces deux messieurs, qui sont absens,

Nous sont chers de bien des manieres;

Ce sont nos amis, nos amans,

Ce sont nos maris et nos freres,

Et les peres de ces enfans.



These absent ones, who justly claim

Our hearts, by every tender name,

To whom each wish extends:

Our husbands and our brothers are,