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save him. We must commit the event to an High::erPower. ––– Yours Ever &c
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Letter 16.
Lady Susan to Mrs . Johnson
Never my dearest Alicia, was I so provokedin my life as by a Letter this morning fromMiſs Summers. That horrid girl of mine hasbeen trying to run away. — I had not a notionof her being such a little Devil before; — sheseemed to have all the Vernon Milkineſs; but on receiving the letter in which I declared my in::tentions about Sir James, she actually attempted to elope; at least, I cannot otherwise account forher doing it. — She meant I suppose to go to the Clarkes in Staffordshire, for she has no other ac::quaintance. —