History does not say, whether she did or did not console M. de Brisac: we are only informed that, immediately after her daughter’s marriage, she returned to Paris, and gave a splendid ball at her Hotel de Coulanges. We are further assured that Mrs. Somers never quarrelled with Emilie from the day of her marriage till the day of her death—but that is incredible.
1803.
THE MODERN GRISELDA.
A TALE.
“And since in man right reason bears the sway,
Let that frail thing, weak woman, have her way.”