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Tell the old man that I was too wide awake to write to the lady I had that affair with when he was in Philad. She came to New Haven two days after I arrived, but I would not go to see her till four days after when I met her at the party. She was so urgent that I took her out in the moon light & performed the part of a man jilt elegantly - told her I did not love her enough &c. When she shed a few tears I thought after all the reputation she has of being a flirt that perhaps she might love me, and I was sorry, but I presume she has done many a poor devil as badly & I think I may say that I will not again play the part of the hypocrite so artfully. I have not the slightest doubt that she has recovered entirely ere this & is burning to revenge herself on me or someone else - to the end she vowed her friendship must ever remain with me, and I of course hoped we would ever be friends. On Wednesday the 7th I left New Haven with Georgie Devereux under my care to take her back to Burlington to school