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Rh during the course of his travels, obtained sufficient experience to form an advantageous commercial connection with a house at Marseilles. This gave him employment and independence, and above all things enabled him to look forward. When he thought of England, it was always in connection with his friend Granard's orphan family, and now that he was coming, his first letter was to them. "And what do you think brings Mr. Glentworth to London?" asked Lady Anne. "Business," replied Isabella. "Business!" exclaimed her mother; "you learnt that odious word from the Palmers; indeed, he is a great deal too rich to think of business. Heartily ashamed will he now be of that horrid connection he has formed somewhere abroad; not that I ever understand those sort of things. I wonder that he could not live like a gentleman quietly in London." "You forget, mamma," returned Isabella, "that you always told us he was very poor; though I am sure no one would think it from the presents he used to send us." "Very odd," replied Lady Anne, "how fond he always was of you all—a lucky thing now. But only think, that tiresome Mr. Glentworth, who would die while we were at Brighton, is our Mr. Glentworth's old uncle, who has left him all his money." "How glad I am!" was the universal exclamation. "How foolish of us," exclaimed Georgiana, "to be