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LETTER XXXIV
MISS ARABELLA HARLOWE[IN ANSWER.]THURSDAY, JULY 20.
MISS HOWE,
I have your's of this morning. All that has happened to the unhappy bodyyou mentioned, is what we foretold and expected. Let him, for whose sakeshe abandoned us, be her comfort. We are told he has remorse, and wouldmarry her. We don't believe it, indeed. She may be very ill. Herdisappointment may make her so, or ought. Yet is she the only one I knowwho is disappointed.
I cannot say, Miss, that the notification from you is the more welcome,for the liberties you have been pleased to take with our whole family forresenting a conduct, that it is a shame any young lady should justify.Excuse this freedom, occasioned by greater. I am, Miss,