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Mr. De Courcy to Sir Reginald
Churchhill.
My dear Sir — I have this moment received your letter, which has given me more astonishment1 than I ever felt before. I am to thank my sister, I suppose, for having represented me in such a light as to injure me in your opinion, and give you all this alarm. I know not why she should choose to make herself and her family uneasy by apprehending2 an event which no one but herself, I can affirm, would ever have thought possible. To impute3 such a design to Lady Susan would be taking from her every claim to that excellent understanding which her bitterest enemies have never denied her; and equally low must sink my pretensions4 to common sense if I am suspected of matrimonial views in my behaviour to her. Our difference of age must be an insuperable objection, and I entreat5 you, my dear father, to quiet your mind, and no longer harbour a suspicion which cannot he more injurious to your own peace than to our understandings. I can have no other view in remaining with Lady Susan, than to enjoy for a short time (as you have yourself expressed it) the conversation of a woman of high intellectual powers. If Mrs. Vernon would allow something to my affection for herself and her husband in the length of my visit, she would do more justice to us all; but my sister is unhappily prejudiced beyond the hope of conviction against Lady Susan. From an attachment6 to her husband, which in itself does honour to both, she cannot forgive the endeavours at preventing their union, which have been attributed to selfishness in Lady Susan; but in this case, as well as in many others, the world has most grossly injured that lady, by supposing the worst where the motives7 of her conduct have been doubtful. Lady Susan had heard something so materially to the disadvantage of my sister as to persuade her that the happiness of Mr. Vernon, to whom she was always much attached, would be wholly destroyed by the marriage. And this circumstance, while it explains the true motives of Lady Susan’s conduct, and removes all the blame which has been so
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n.惊奇,惊异 | |
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逮捕,拘押( apprehend的现在分词 ); 理解 | |
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自称( pretension的名词复数 ); 自命不凡; 要求; 权力 | |
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v.恳求,恳请 | |
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n.附属物,附件;依恋;依附 | |
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retirement
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v.诋毁( traduce的过去式和过去分词 );诽谤;违反;背叛 | |
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