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242 her daughters to finish their pleasant labours in the drawing-room, while she inspected the rooms below, by much the more important, because the more expensive affair. Nothing could exceed the suavity of her manners to those servants of her neighbours now employed on her account, and who actually found themselves repaid by the smiles of her they termed a real lady for extra service and great personal exertion. It is true, they were a good-natured and respectable set of servants, who had lived so long in their places that they might be said, by a happy contagion, to have caught kindly feelings from their superiors, and, having assisted in saving the lives of the young ladies, gave them an interest in their pleasures, and a real delight in seeing those fair young faces lighted up with joy. The marriage of Mr. Glentworth had been a subject of importance and exultation to them all; nor had they failed to rejoice in Miss Louisa's marrying "the man of her heart," spite of her they wickedly termed "the old lady," but now they saw more of her; scarcely a lord was thought good enough for her daughters. "Helen," said Georgiana, "just lay down that wreath a moment, and look at the two young gentlemen coming up the street." "They are fine-looking young men, certainly, and as tall as Charles Penrhyn. Ah! they stop at Mr. Palmer's; they must be Lord Meersbrook and his sailor-brother; I wonder which is he?"