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Dear sir,

My warmest acknowledgments are justly due to you, for the trouble you have taken to gratify my curiosity: but how shall I sufficiently express the gratitude which warms my heart, when I reflect, how greatly I am your debtor, for the kind assistance you afforded in securing me from the scorn of the world; which, in such cases, is often too apt to confound the innocent with/ the guilty: – for this, my dear sir, accept my best thanks. – I would say more, but no words whatever could fully convey to you a just idea of my feelings. I should be equally at a loss to give you a conception of my sensations upon perusing the whole of the account, nor will I pain your sensibility by the attempt; I will only add, that I bedewed the memory of both my parents with tears.

I hope, my dear sir, I shall not incur, in your opinion, the imputation of treating your advice with disrespect, when I add, that tho' I am removed to this place, I am not separated from my friend Sir Edward; on the contrary, I persuaded him to accompany me in the excursion, with the hope of his deriving some advantage from the change of scene and variety of company; as the latter are numerous, of course, gaiety and chearfulness predominate. – I find it already takes a good effect upon me, and I hope it will have the same upon my friend. We intend continuing here till within a few days of the time you have fixed on for being at the Grove; we shall then part; Sir Edward having agreed to attend/ Mrs. Horton and his sister to Scarborough, to give the latter lady an opportunity of joining the beloved companion of her childhood, Miss Bertills; in whose praise Miss Melworth speaks warmly.