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=tage. There cannot be a more gentle, affectionate heart; or more obliging manners, when actingwithout restraint. Her little Cousins are all veryfond of her. — Yrs .. affec:ly

CathVernon

Letter 19.

Lady Susan to Mrs . Johnson

Churchill

You will be eager I know to hear something farther of Frederica, & perhaps may think me neg::ligent for not writing before. — She arrived withher Uncle last Thursday fortnight, when of course I lost no time in demanding the reason of her be::haviour, & soon found myself to have been perfectlyright in attributing it to my own letter. – The pur::port of it frightened her so thoroughly that with amixture of true girlish perverseneſs & folly, without

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