Jane Austen
junior, was left to the guardianship of my mother's nephew, Colonel Fitzwilliam, and
myself. About a year ago, she was taken from school, and an establishment formed for her
in London; and last summer she went with the lady who presided over it, to Ramsgate; and
thither also went Mr. Wickham, undoubtedly by design; for there proved to have been a
prior acquaintance between him and Mrs. Younge, in whose character we were most
unhappily deceived; and by her connivance and aid, he so far recommended himself to
Georgiana, whose affectionate heart retained a strong impression of his kindness to her as a
child, that she was persuaded to believe herself in love, and to consent to an elopement. She
was then but fifteen, which must be her excuse; and after stating her imprudence, I am
happy to add, that I owed the knowledge of it to herself. I joined them unexpectedly a day
or two before the intended elopement, and then Georgiana, unable to support the idea of
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