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every sigh of regret. My own Folly had endangered me,my Preservation I owe to the kindneſs, the Integrityof another. — But the unfortunate Mrs .. Manwar::ing, whose agonies while she related the past, seem'dto threaten her reason — how is she to be consoled?

After such a discovery as this, you will scarce::ly affect farther wonder at my meaning in biddingyou Adeiu. – My Understanding is at length re=:stored, & teaches me no leſs to abhor the Artifices which had subdued me, than to despise myselffor the weakneſs, on which their strength wasfo[..]eunded1.

R DeCourcy.

Letter 37.

Lady Susan to Mr . De Courcy

Upper Seymour St .

I am satisfied — & will trouble you nomore when these few Lines are dismiſsed. — The

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