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not know when you will see me again. Butremember what I tell you of Frederica; — youmust make it your busineſs to see justice doneher. — She is an amiable girl, & has a very su::periormind to what we have ever given her creditfor. —"

He then left me & ran upstairs. – I would not try to stop him, for I knew what his feelings must be; the nature of mine, as I listened to him, I need notattempt to describe. — For a minute or two I remainedin the same spot, overpowered by wonder — of amost agreable sort indeed; yet it required someconsideration to be tranquilly happy. —

In about ten minutes after my return tothe parlour, Lady Susan entered the room. — I concluded of course that she & Reginald had been quarrelling, & looked with anxious curiosityfor a confirmation of my beleif in her face. —

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