Volume the First: Diplomatic DisplayOxfordBodleian Library, MS.Don.e.7.
Chapter the seventh
The next morning brought the threeMiſs Simpsons to wait on Lady Williams,who received them with the utmost po::liteneſs & introduced to their acquaintanceLucy, with whom the eldest was so muchpleased that at parting she declared hersole ambition was to have her accompanythem the next morning to Bath, whitherthey were going for some weeks.
" Lucy, said Lady Williams, is quite"" at her own disposal & if she chooses to "" accept so kind an invitation, I hope she "" will not hesitate, from any motives of "" delicacy on my account. I know not""indeed how I shall ever be able to part"