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Rh Lady Anne Granard and Lady Sarah Butterlip as being alike; both were high-born, both married private gentlemen, both were extravagant, and were left poorly provided, as widows with daughters, and both assisted by their brothers. Here, thank God, the resemblance ceases, and will, I trust, never be renewed, save to say that both are very fine women, mamma being the younger." "I know nothing of Lady Sarah Butterlip; I have never seen her." "How should you, my dear, marrying so soon, and leaving England immediately. I saw her at Rotheles Castle, and, like all the rest of the world, was perfectly fascinated by the beauty of her features and the graces of her manners, though one was marked by time, and the other tinged by affectation." "But what does she do that is wrong? in money matters, I mean?" "What does she not do? She runs into debt to every body, and pays nobody; borrows money without a chance for repayment;"********* "My dear Mary, nobody living shall dare to compare my mother with such a woman as that; it is frightful to think of any human being, much less any woman of rank, stooping to such baseness. Depend upon it, her faults have been greatly exaggerated; she is the victim of scandal." "I fear not, to this I can speak, for Mr. Palmer