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 deal of surprise but still more pleasure in seeing her.—Nothing cd be kinder than her reception from both Husband and Wife. "How did she come? & with whom?—And they were so glad to find her equal to the Journey!—And that she was to belong to them, was a thing of course." Miss Diana P. was about 4 & 30, of middling height & slender;—delicate looking rather than sickly; with an agreable face, & a very animated eye;—her manners resembling her Brother's in their ease & frankness, though with more decision & less mildness in her Tone. She began an account of herself without delay.—Thanking them for their Invitation, but "that was quite out of the question, for they were all three come, & meant to get into Lodgings & make some stay."—"All three come!—What!—Susan & Arthur!—Susan able to come too!—* This