Chapter 144

FROM LADY LEONORA ---- TO THE DUCHESS OF ----.

Yarmouth.

Joy, dearest mother! Come and share your daughter’s happiness!

_Continued by General B----._

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Lady Olivia, thus unmasked by her own hand, has fled to the continent, declaring that she will never more return to England. There she is right--England is not a country fit for such women.--But I will never waste another word or thought upon her.

Mr. L---- has given up the Russian embassy, and returns with Lady Leonora to L---- Castle to-morrow. He has invited me to accompany them. Lady Leonora is now the happiest of wives, and your Grace the happiest of mothers.

I have the honour and the pleasure to be

Your Grace’s sincerely attached,

J. B----.

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