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168 to marry without my wife had some prospect of the comfort and refinement of that rank in life to which we have both been accustomed." "I must tell you," exclaimed Lord Penrhyn, "that you need not look to any thing from me. I would not, if I could, help a young man who thinks of marrying." "And, pray, who is the young lady?" asked his sister. "Louisa Granard," replied her brother, who could scarcely have named any one more displeasing. "That insipid pink and white thing!" cried Lady Penrhyn. "Why, she has not a guinea, nor an expectation," cried her husband. "With all sorts of extravagant notions, inherited from her mother," said that mother's particular friend. "Lady Anne ruined her husband," said Lord Penrhyn. "Will you have a hackney coach for your travelling carriage?" cried her ladyship. "Spare your wit, Julia," replied Mr. Penrhyn; "my mind is quite made up. Louisa and myself have been long attached, and, if our home be an humble, I hope, I know that it will be a happy one. I trust in the course of a month to introduce Mrs. Charles Penrhyn." "Not to me," interrupted his sister. "I will have