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Tonight, I will be continuing the story, Lady Susan, by Jane Austen.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

Chapter 14. Mr. DeCorsi to Sir Reginald. Churchill.

My dear sir, I have this moment received your letter, which has given me more astonishment

than I ever felt before.

I am to thank my sister, I suppose, for having represented me in such a light as to injure me,

in your opinion, and give you all this alarm.

I know not why she should choose to make herself and her family uneasy, by apprehending an event

which no one but herself, I can affirm, would ever have thought possible. To impute such a

design to Lady Susan would be taking from her every claim to that excellent understanding,

which her bitterest enemies have never denied her. and equally, though, must sink my pretensions

to common sense if I am suspected of matrimonial views in my behaviour to her.

Our difference of age must be an insuperable objection, and I entreat you, my dear father, to quiet

your mind, and no longer harbour a suspicion which cannot be more injurious to your own

peace than to our understandings. I can have no other view in remaining with Lady Susan than to

enjoy, for a short time, as you have yourself expressed it, the conversation of a woman of high

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