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Rh every body. It soon, however, became evident to Lady Anne that she was less visible in her individual state than when she was accompanied by two or three blooming daughters, to whom nature had been so liberal as to make amends for the few advantages maternal solicitude afforded them, having written gentlewoman as decidedly on the persons of each, as ever she wrote on that of uncle Toby. This shortsightedness was not compensated to the feelings of the woman of rank by the compliment it conveyed to the mother, and she was debating whether to send for Helen and press the propriety of Louisa's having a month's pleasure, when a new medium for attraction was started in the bazaar to which we have alluded, and her letter was dispatched with all possible celerity, insisting that her daughters "should work day and night"—so ran the document—for three weeks, then bring down their produce, recruit their good looks for one week, and be ready to assist in discharging the duties of a stand which, in the mean time, she determined by hook, or crook, to obtain. Of course, Lady Anne was seized (suddenly we apprehend, seeing she never was similarly affected before) with charity, in the general sense of the word, but a decided predilection for the charity in question, which was not a new affair, but one which had fallen grievously into "the sear and yellow leaf," for lack of due attention, and to which it was certain Lady Anne, though a constant summer visitant, had never yet