Lady Susan by Jane Austen. - HTML preview

XXXIV

MR. DE COURCY TO LADY SUSAN

-‐-‐-‐ Hotel

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.