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72 this, she had a handsome house, in which there was a good deal going on. It was a pleasant lounge of a morning, when you had nothing better to do with yourself; and, if you were expected to flatter her vanity, she was quite ready to flatter your's in return. Such was the lady who, having finished her whispering conversation with her hostess, very unceremoniously called her brother from a lively conversation that was going on between him and the girls, just gave them a languid bow, and departed. "I wonder," said Lady Anne, as she too left the room, "what Lady Penrhyn takes her brother about with her for? He is neither a good match now, nor ever likely to be one." "I think," said Isabella, startling Louisa, who had been watching the cabriolet down the street, "that Lady Penrhyn might have asked you to go with mamma." "What should she ask me for?" exclaimed Louisa, colouring. "Only because it would have given you pleasure," replied her sister; "but when did Lady Penrhyn ever think of any body's pleasure but her own?"