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balm to her wounded feelings, the letter of Lady Aurora Granville; but had the cruel disappointment to find in it only these words:
"Hate me not, sweet Miss Ellis—but I am forbidden to write to you!—forbidden to receive your letters!—
Deeply hurt, and deeply offended, Ellis, now, was filled with the heaviest grief; though neither offended nor hurt by Lady Aurora, whose trembling hand-writing she kissed a thousand times; with a perfect conviction, that their sufferings were nearly reciprocal, from this terrible prohibition.
Her little baggage soon arrived, with a letter from Selina, containing a permission from Mrs. Maple, that Ellis might immediately return to Lewes, lest, which Mrs. Howel would never forgive, she should meet with Lord Melbury.
Ellis wrote a cold excuse, declaring
