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frequently engaged in long conversations together,& she has contrived by the most artful Coquetryto subdue his Judgement to her own purposes. It is impoſsible to see the intimacy between them, so very soon established, without some alarm, tho' I can hardly suppose that Lady Susan's veiws extend to marriage. I wish you could get Reginald home again, under any plausible pretence. He is not at all disposed to leave us, &I have given him as many hints of my Father's precarious state of health, as common decency willallow me to do in my own house. — Her powerover him must now be boundleſs, as she has en::tirely effaced all his former ill-opinion, & per::suaded him not merely to forget, but to justifyher conduct. — Mr . Smith's account of her proceed::ings at Langford, where he accused her of having

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