Mistreſs of Deceit however, she appeared perfectly unconcerned, & after chatting on indifferent subjectsfor a short time, said to me,

"I find from Wilson that we are going to loseM^r . De Courcy. — Is it true that he leaves Churchillthis morning?" —

I replied that it was. —

"He told us nothing of all this last night, saidshe laughing, or even this morning at Breakfast.But perhaps he did not know it himself. – Young Men are often hasty in their resolutions — & not more sudden in forming, than unsteady in keepingthem. — I should not be surprised if he were tochange his mind at last, & not go." —

She soon afterwards left the room. — I trust however my dear Mother, that we have no reason to fear an alteration of his present plan; thingshave gone too far. – They must have quarrelled, &about Frederica too. — Her calmneſs astonishes