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"Oh, Jane, had we been less secret, had we told what we knew of

him, this could not have happened!"

"Perhaps it would have been better," replied her sister.

"But to expose the former faults of any person, without knowing

what their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable."

"We acted with the best intentions."

"Could Colonel Forster repeat the particulars of Lydia's note to

his wife?"

"He brought it with him for us to see."

Jane then took it from her pocket-book, and gave it to Elizabeth.

These were the contents:--

/* NIND "My dear Harriet, */