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been a consciousneſs of his folly. — And why should your Ladyship at any rate quarrel with my brother for an interference which you must know, it was not in his nature to refuse, when urged in sucha manner?"

"His disposition you know is warm, & he cameto expostulate with me, his compaſsion all alive for thisill-used Girl, this Heroine in distreſs! — We misunder::stood each other. He beleived me more to blame thanI really was; I considered his interference as leſs ex::cusable than I now find it. I have a real re::gard for him, & was beyond expreſsion mortified to find it as I thought so ill bestowed. We wereboth warm, & of course both to blame. – His re::solution of leaving Churchill is consistent withhis general eagerneſs; – when I understood his intention however, & at the same time began to think that we had perhaps been equally mistaken in each

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