proposed her Neice's returning with them into theCountry. Lady Susan was unable to expreſs hersense of such kindneſs; yet knew not from avariety of reasons how to part with her Daughter; & as, tho' her own plans were not yet wholly fixed, she trusted it would ere long be in her power totake Frederica into the Country herself, concluded by declining entirely to profit by such unexam::pled attention. — M^rs . Vernon however perse::vered in the offer of it; & tho' Lady Susan con::tinued to resist, her resistance in the course ofa few days seemed somewhat leſs formidable.

The lucky alarm of an Influenza, de::cided what might not have been decided quiteso soon. — Lady Susan's maternal fears were then too much awakened for her to think of anything but Frederica's removal from the risk of infec::tion. Above all Disorders in the World, shemost dreaded the Influenza for her daughter's