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[After her return from her]
Harlowe-Place, Feb. 20 I beg your excuse for not writing sooner. Alas! my dear, I have sad prospects before me! My brother and sister have succeeded in all their views. They have found out another lover for me; an hideous one! -- Yet he is encouraged by everybody. No wonder that I was ordered home so suddenly. At an hour's warning! -- No other notice, you know, than what was brought with the chariot that was to carry me back.