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So very great, so total a change from the inti::macy of Friendship, must render any future in::tercourse the severest punishment; — & your re::solution of quitting Churchill is undoubtedly in unison with our situation & with those livelyfeelings which I know you to poſseſs. — But at the same time, it is not for me to suffer sucha sacrifice, as it must be, to leave Relations to whom you are so much attached & are so dear. My remaining here cannot give that pleasure toMr . & Mrs . Vernon which your society must; — & my visit has already perhaps been too long. My removal therefore, which must at any rate take place soon, may with perfect conveni::ence be hastened; — & I make it my particular request that I may not in any way be instru::mental in separating a family so affectionatelyattached to each other. — Where I go, is of no

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