Though I struggled to conquer by every means the passion, I at length yielded to his solicitations, and in a fatal moment for my own peace I became his wife.

In a few years his conduct fully justified my demand for a separation, and I fondly hoped to escape the fatal prophecy.

Under the delusion that I had passed my forty-seventh birthday, I was prevailed upon to believe in his amendment, and to pardon him.

I have, however, heard from undoubted authority that I am only forty-seven this day, and I know that I am about to die.

I die, however, without the dread of death, fortified as I am by the sacred precepts of Christianity and upheld by its promises.