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Rh "I told mamma I could not pay the debt, but she said 'she only wanted it for a few months;' at Christmas uncle will send her plenty." "Well! if Lady Anne Granard will step over the way to 'those low people, the Palmers,' she will find 'the old man' in the library, and, if she chooses to give him a note, he will give her a check for a hundred pounds, or a trifle more should she need it; but he will not encourage her daughters to trot out on any such errands—there is something quite shocking in it, to my conception." "Don't hasten home, my loves, for Mr. Palmer is not going out, and I shall retire before your mamma comes. I want to know how you found Mrs. Penrhyn, about whom I am very anxious. I shall contrive to drive thither to-morrow, and Mrs. Gooch will be with her on Friday." Helen mentioned her ardent desire to go to her instead of going to Brighton, on which Mr. Palmer said, approvingly, "You may consider that point settled, my dear; is there any other circumstance you would accomplish that concerns mamma?" "Louisa wishes to see her exceedingly." "Then she shall go to-morrow with Mrs. Palmer, whose presence will induce her 'to assume a virtue, though she has it not.' " "Thank you, thank you, dear Mr. Palmer! what would become of us without you! You will never call us young ladies again, but dear girls, won't you?" "No, you will be borrowing baggages to-morrow!"