The things we do!

"Dear Madam" (wrote the young lady in her firmest handwriting)--"Mamma is
at this moment in a state of such grief and dismay at the cruel
misfortune and humiliation which has just befallen our family, that she
is really not able to write to you as she ought, and this task, painful
as it is, must be mine. Dear Lady Glenlivat, the kindness and confidence
which I have ever received from you and yours, merit truth, and most
grateful respect and regard from me. And I feel after the late fatal
occurrence, what I have often and often owned to myself though I did not
dare to acknowledge it, that I ought to release Lord F., at once and for
ever, from an engagement which he could never think of maintaining with a
family so unfortunate as ours. I thank him with all my heart for his
goodness in bearing with my humours so long; if I have given him pain, as
I know I have sometimes, I beg his pardon, and would do so on my knees. I
hope and pray he may be happy, as I feared he never could be with me.


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