Lady Susan: Diplomatic Display New York Morgan Library & Museum, MS. MA 1226
"Are you going? – said I. You will find Mr . Ver::non in his own room." —
"No Catherine, replied he. — I am not going. –Will you let me speak to you
a moment in your?"1 own
room? —"
We went into my room. thither directly."I find, continued he, his confusion increasing as he spoke, that I
havebeen acting with my usual foolish Impetuosity. — I have entirely
misunderstood Lady Susan, & was on the point of leaving the
house under a falseimpreſsion of her conduct. — There has been somevery great mistake — we have been all mista::ken I
fancy. — Frederica does not know her Mo::ther — Lady Susan means nothing but her Good —but Frederica will not make a friend of her. — Lady Susan therefore does not always knowwhat will make her daughter happy. — BesidesI could have no right to interfere — Miſs Vernonwas mistaken in
applying to me. — In short
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