Lady Susan

MR. DE COURCY TO LADY SUSAN

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I write only to bid you farewell, the spell is removed; I see you as you are.  Since we parted yesterday, I have received from indisputable authority such a history of you as must bring the most mortifying conviction of the imposition I have been under, and the absolute necessity of an immediate and eternal separation from you.  You cannot doubt to what I allude.  Langford!  Langford! that word will be sufficient.  I received my information in Mr. Johnson’s house, from Mrs. Mainwaring herself.  You know how I have loved you; you can intimately judge of my present feelings, but I am not so weak as to find indulgence in describing them to a woman who will glory in having excited their anguish, but whose affection they have never been able to gain.

R. De Courcy.