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Lady Susan Vernon to Mr. De Courcy
Upper Seymour Street.
I have received your letter, and though I do not attempt to conceal1 that I am gratified by your impatience2 for the hour of meeting, I yet feel myself under the necessity of delaying that hour beyond the time originally fixed3. Do not think me unkind for such an exercise of my power, nor accuse me of instability without first hearing my reasons. In the course of my journey from Churchhill I had ample leisure for reflection on the present state of our affairs, and every review has served to convince me that they require a delicacy4 and cautiousness of conduct to which we have hitherto been too little attentive5. We have been hurried on by our feelings to a degree of precipitation which ill accords with the claims of our friends or the opinion of the world. We have been unguarded in forming this hasty engagement, but we must not complete the imprudence by ratifying6 it while there is so much reason to fear the connection would be opposed by those friends on whom you depend. It is not for us to blame any expectations on your father’s side of your marrying to advantage; where possessions are so extensive as those of your family, the wish of increasing them, if not strictly7 reasonable, is too common to excite surprize or resentment8. He has a right to require a woman of fortune in his daughter-in-law, and I am sometimes quarrelling with myself for suffering you to form a connection so imprudent; but the influence of reason is often acknowledged too late by those who feel like me. I have now been but a few months a widow, and, however little indebted to my husband’s memory for any happiness derived9 from him during a union of some years, I cannot forget that the indelicacy of so early a second marriage must subject me to the
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