xxxiv: 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.