ABSTRACT
No sooner was our hero’s departure known through the country, than Miss Moody thought it a fit opportunity to push forward the scheme she had been long brooding. She had every reason to expect, from the spirit of Letitia, and from / the materials she might employ, that she could alienate, before our hero’s return, her affections from him, and render the breach irreparable: and, at the worst, she believed it to be in her power to prevent him, if reduced to extremities, from becoming another’s if not her’s. She therefore wrote the following letter to our heroine:
‘Dear Letty,
