Living amidst the scenes of tropical luxuriance and beauty, endeared to her by the memories of childhood, Josephine could almost have been happy but for the thoughts of her absent Eugene. Grief for her lost child preyed ever upon her heart.
Revisits France.
Her alienated husband, relieved from all restraint, plunged anew into those scenes of fashionable dissipation for which Paris was then renowned. But sickness, sorrows, and misfortunes came. In those dark hours he found that no earthly friend
of their husbands. It was supposed that their parents could much more judiciously arrange these matters than the young ladies themselves.
Marriage.
Birth of Eugene.
Josephine was sixteen years of age at the time of her marriage. Her attractions were so remarkable that she immediately became a great