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In that extraordinary race, the most sacred engagements, the deepest affections, went for nothing as soon as political combinations seemed to advise it; nevertheless, each one of its members possessed in the highest degree the family spirit. Caroline took a hand in bringing about the downfall of her brother, to whom she owed all her grandeur. It is, perhaps, she who dealt the final blow."