Jane Austen
grieving and offending a brother whom she almost looked up to as a father, acknowledged
the whole to me. You may imagine what I felt and how I acted. Regard for my sister's credit
and feelings prevented any public exposure; but I wrote to Mr. Wickham, who left the place
immediately, and Mrs. Younge was of course removed from her charge. Mr. Wickham's
chief object was unquestionably my sister's fortune, which is thirty thousand pounds; but I
cannot help supposing that the hope of revenging himself on me was a strong inducement.
His revenge would have been complete indeed.
"This, madam, is a faithful narrative of every event in which we have been concerned
together; and if you do not absolutely reject it as false, you will, I hope, acquit me
henceforth of cruelty towards Mr. Wickham. I know not in what manner, under what form
of falsehood he had imposed on you; but his success is not perhaps to be wondered at.
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