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constitution. Frederica returned to Churchill withher Uncle & Aunt, & three weeks afterwards Lady Susan announced her being married to Sir JamesMartin. —

Mrs . Vernon was then convinced of what she had only suspected before, that she might have spared herself all the trouble of urging a removal,which Lady Susan had doubtleſs resolved on fromthe first. — Frederica's visit was nominally forsix weeks; — but her Mother, tho' inviting her toreturn in one or two affectionate Letters, was ve=:ry ready to oblige the whole Party by consent::ing to a prolongation of her stay, & in the course of two months ceased to write of her absence, &in the course of two more, to write to her at all.

Frederica was therefore fixed in the fa::mily of her Uncle & Aunt, till such time as Re::ginald De Courcy could be talked, flattered &

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