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Rh the voyage; but, I must own, I impute my improvement more to the kind attentions of Lord Allerton, who is my companion still, and will not, I think, leave me, than to the sea air. Parizzi was quite right, I really think, in saying excitement was good for me, therefore I must seek novelty (by which he meant, I must forget the past, and learn to live in the present), for I really find more advantage than I expected in the time; but it has been in consequence rather of water than air, which has kindly provided me with two excellent nurses! "Yes, two! What do you say, dear Isabella, to my having actually picked up another ci-devant lover of one of your sisters, poor little Georgiana, who is at present wearing the willow, as well as this fine young man, who is really the beau ideal of a sailor-gentleman, because Lady Anne must have lords at least for the rest of her daughters? You know her last letters said how unwell this poor girl was, and that she was hastening to Brighton on that account. She may well be unwell, for Arthur Hales (who, by the way, had a viscount for his father, and has one now for his brother, to say nothing of a glorious old baronet for his grandfather) is in age, person, rank—nay, even fortune, all one could wish for dear Georgiana, whom I used to love as well as yourself, and whose welfare I would, if possible, ensure. I wish you to write and tell her this, in order to support her spirits until our return, when it shall go hard but we will make her as