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Catherine, every thing has gone wrong — but itis now all happily settled. — Lady Susan I beleive wishes to speak to you about it, if you are at lei::sure." —

"Certainly;" replied I, deeply sighing at the reci::tal of so lame a story. — I made no remarks however, for words would have been vain. Regi::nald was glad to get away, & I went to Lady Su::san; curious indeed to hear her account of it. —

"Did not I tell you, said she with a smile,that your Brother would not leave us after all?"

"You did indeed, replied I very gravely, butI flattered myself that you would be mistaken."

"I should not have hazarded such an opinion, returned she, if it had not at that moment oc::curred me, that his resolution of going might beoccasioned by a Conversation in which we had been this morning engaged, & which had endedvery much to his Diſsatisfaction from our not

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