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226 who had almost determined at once to appear charming as a Circean nymph, yet correct as a vestal, by flirting only with her own handsome brother, recalled by the pride of rank to the memory of her highly-respectable but very remote affinity to aristocracy, determined at once to assert the privileges given by nature, which, in bestowing the patent of beauty, had outstripped the Herald's Office. With a smile, in which there was more of malice than affection, she hastily bade adieu; and Lady Anne, for the present, felt as if Fanchette and her coach full of accommodations, heavy as they might once be supposed to be, were suddenly swallowed up in that awful sea, to which so many refractory spirits have been exorcised and consigned.