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Mr . Vernon which had reached me in common withthe World in general, & gained my entire beleif before I saw you, but which you by the exertion of yourperverted Abilities had made me resolve to disallow,have been unanswerably proved to me. — Nay, more —I am aſsured that a Connection, of which I had never before entertained a thought, has for some time existed, & still continues to exist between you &the Man, whose family you robbed of it'sPeace,in return for the hospitality with which you werereceived into it! — That you have correspondedwith him ever since your leaving Langford not with his wife — but with him — & that henow visits you every day. — Can you, dare youdeny it? — And all this at the time when Iwas an encouraged, an accepted Lover! — Fromwhat have I not escaped! — I have only to begrateful. — Far from me be all Complaint, &

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