ask him what he thought of telling Mr. —that I lent him the money, after I had his sacred promise on account of —, never to let it be known.
I asked him if he had ever heard me utter a word respecting you, that was not dictated by esteem and cordial good will, and how he could imagine that if I had an idea that his acquaintance with me would give you one moment's uneasiness, that I should not in that moment have broken it off.
God knows, and he knows too that I would, (This is a very ridiculous and tardy vindication of what had been constantly practised for upwards of five years, and an appeal to the divine power for the truth!!! to prove the falsehood of which, it is only necessary to request my readers to turn to her fourteenth letter, where she even upbraids me for having been discontented at Mr. G. spending so much of his time with her when in Dublin.) but I always thought you were desirous of keeping it up, as being sure of his at least being in society that could not be disreputable. (So far this observation is true. I was well pleased at Mr. G.'s visiting her, but I did not like his living with her, (which was often the case) more than at home.)
I tell you all this, which is ALL THAT PASSED BETWEEN US IN THIS INTERVIEW, (Why this sentence is marked so emphatically, I could never comprehend, - nor indeed the intention of most part of this letter.) that you may know from one never yet told you a falsehood (All she told, all she professed to me was falsehood) and as he professes to be unable to relate any thing accurately, " the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth that you may not be misled"

(There appears a strange confusion of mind in the construction of this sentence, to me totally unintelligible ; as it is nothing but truth, it is a pity it has not truth's first attribute, clearness) he was talking so much all the time, that I believe, he hardly heard me, when I assured him I was sorry to see him carried away by the violence of his temper - that I harboured no resentment against him, - and only hoped he would not hereafter represent me as such a fiend, to turn a man's wife into ridicule to her husband, ( What she alludes to here I never could understand, she seems to vindicate herself of what I never heard her accused of by any one, on the contrary even to Mr G. I know she always affected to speak well of me.) as it was likely to come to the ears of those, who are not so deeply impressed with the duty of forgiveness as myself; he went away in a rage, or perhaps I might have talked him into a little reason.
Adieu, and Believe me, dear Mrs. G.
Your sincere friend,

S. SlDDONS.