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Rh time both became exceedingly weary—the result of their long confinement, and Georgiana was positively too weak to proceed. The boy was, therefore, despatched for a coach; he hesitated a moment, and then, clapping his hand on his pocket, said to him self, "I has my half-crown," and darted off. "We will borrow his half-crown," said Helen, "or we shall have the half-sovereign taken from us. Oh! Georgiana, what a terrible thing is the want of money; the actual want which we are experiencing now! One may well feel for the poor when they beg for pence, after finding one's sister dropping, as it were, in the streets of London for want of a few shillings. Mamma scolds me for pitying beggars. I wonder she is not herself the most charitable woman in London; for surely "a fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind." "I am convinced that James knows how poor she is, and that we have no money; how mortifying that is! but he does not look knowing, which is a great comfort." Louisa was delighted to see them, and immediately guessed their errand, which saved all the pain and trouble of explanation: as, however, her husband was gone into the country, and would be absent a few days, the money could not be procured that night; but hastily was her own well-filled purse drawn out to supply the wants of her sisters, who told her all that had occurred, ending with Helen's proposition of leaving the letter with Louisa, as then it would be safe.