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148 to such authority, we yet venture to say, one year less will not make her the worse, and we may add, that Miss Granard's increase of general happiness, and the aids offered by the sea and the climate, had unquestionably so restored her, that although not what she was in the bloom of nineteen, she was to a man in his thirtieth year, who had known the sorrows and mortifications poor Lord Allerton had experienced, and in some measure merited, a far more interesting person than he had ever seen her, for she had unquestionably gained in the expression of intellect and sensibility more than she had lost in youth and its evanescent beauty.