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136 had been driven into difficulties when he had a fine income, and he could readily conceive how likely it was that, with her present small one, Lady Anne should be embarrassed. The riches of the English, and their habits of expense, made her present situation extremely pitiable in his eyes, and he seemed to ponder the matter with as much anxiety as the daughters; at length he said:— "It is not an easy thing for an Italian to move with the rapidity of an Englishman; he may resolve when he has investigated, but he is lazy; nevertheless, I leave Leghorn on Saturday, you shall see, and go straight through France, take one little rest at Paris, go thence to Dieppe, and cross to Brighton." "My dear count, you astonish me." "I visit Lady Anne, I find out soon if she is distress, and I advance two or three hundreds of pounds, to save the ruin of your law. I take present, if you please, but you must not use your husband money for save Lady Anne, nor must you be disgrace in this country, and who can say how long poor Glentwortn may find it necessary to travel, or that he shall not sent to you for part of the money he left with you—nothing can be more likely." Isabella felt alarmed at an alternative she had not considered, and saw clearly that no possible plan for relieving her mother, at once effectually and wisely, could be offered of any comparative utility with this, and since it had been the full intention of the Count