on my resentful heart, you may gueſs how muchmore strongly they operate on M^r . Vernon's generoustemper. – I wish I could be as well satisfied as he is, that it was really her choice to leave Lang::ford for Churchill; & if she had not staid three months there before she discovered that her friendsmanner of Living did not suit her situation orfeelings, I might have beleived that concern forthe loſs of such a Husband as M^r . Vernon, to whomher own behaviour was ^{far from} no^t unexceptionable, might for a time make her wish for retirement. But I cannot forget the length of her visit to the Manwarings, & when I reflect on the differentmode of Life which she led with them, from wthat to which she must now submit, I can only sup::pose that the wish of establishing her reputation by following, tho' late, the path of propriety, occa::sioned her removal from a family where she must