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50 too far on your forbearance. Miss Churchill is very intimate with you, is she not?" Henrietta felt disappointed, though she could have given as little cause for her disappointment as for her previous blush. "Miss Churchill is," replied she, "my most intimate friend." "Perhaps, then," exclaimed Sir George, "you will save me a task to which my courage is not equal. Will you allow me to communicate to you the disagreeable mission which I have incautiously undertaken?" "What is the matter?—yes; pray, tell me first," interrupted Henrietta, now all anxiety on Ethel's account. "Miss Churchill is very beautiful?" asked he. "The loveliest creature on which the sun ever shone!" Sir George Kingston looked at his companion as if he did not quite agree with her; and, though he only looked his doubt, Henrietta felt the full compliment of the look;