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THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOK

TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

CONSTANTIA,"

THE

CORRESPONDENCE

OF

THEODOSIUS

AND

CONSTANTIA,

BEFORE AND AFTER

HER TAKING THE VEIL.

TWO VOLUMES IN ONE..

VOL. II.

Embellished with superb Engravings.

New-York:

PRINTED BY JAmes oram, no. 102, WATER-STREET,

1802.

700

LIV

THE CORRESPONDENCE OF

THEODOSIUS AND CONSTANTIA,

After she had taken the Veil.

LETTER I.

THEODOSIUS TO CONSTANTIA.

THE efforts which a mind in trouble makes to regain its loft peace, like the glances of the sun that struggle through oppofing clouds, are delightful to all beholders. When my Conftantia rofe above that gloom of forrow, which her toọ apprehenfive heart had thrown around her; when I faw her eye brighten, and her elegant but dejected features affume that beautiful form in which nature had moulded them, I should have felt the pleasure of a Christian, had I not once been Theodofius.

Amiable mourner! Let us now forget the name which you have fo long remembered with anguish, and which you could not pronounce without trembling, when you affectingly told

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