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 *sence inspired Calantha with a mixed feeling of horror and commiseration, which Lady St. Clare's ludicrous figure, and Jessica and Lauriana's huge and clumsy personages turned into disgust.

"Oh did you behold her?—did you see my poor deluded Elinor?" cried Sir Everard, riding up to Calantha, as she still gazed from the open carriage upon the procession: "did you see my unfortunate girls?" "I did, indeed," said Lady Avondale, the tears springing into her eyes: "I saw them and stopped; for it occurred to me, that, perhaps, I might speak to them—might yet save them." "And would you have condescended so much? Oh! this is more than I dared ask or hope." Saying which, the Doctor wept, as was his custom, and Buchanan laughed. "You are so good," continued he: "you were in tears when you saw your former playmates disgracing themselves, and their sex, but in the rest of the carriages I heard