...years did Monsieur and Madame de Clairville live together in undisturbed happiness, when the former was seized with a violent fever, which carried him off in a few days, and left the gay and elegant Eliza, at only nineteen years of age, a widow, with two daughters to educate...

...him to go to Bath, and the waters had some effect upon him ; but upon his return to the metropolis he was seized with a violent fever, which carried him off in a few days. The ill-natnred world upon this occasion failed not to insinuate that he made a rash attempt upon his life,...