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154 a single guinea. This circumstance by no means depreciated her in the eyes of the charitable duchess who headed the lady committee, or the charitable noblemen who presided at the gentlemen's, since no person could lament their own omission more gracefully, or advert with more becoming humility, to the very little her altered circumstances allowed her to give at all, and which she candidly confessed (candour is candy to most of us) she had hitherto on principle confined her alms (such as they were) to her own parish, which was so extensive, although it contained the great and the wealthy to an immense amount, demanded also the widow's mite and the orphan's scanty offering. Her children had been brought up in such a manner that they were always glad to do their best, and would be indeed happy if their ingenuity and such accomplishment as she had been enabled to give them, could contribute to the excellent purposes intended. "How happens it," said the Duchess of C, "we see none of your daughters with you this season, Lady Anne? they are not all married, I know." "Like your grace, I have married two; and, in another respect like your grace, I have two remaining." "Three surely, if I remember right? Indeed, Miss Granard is not one to be forgotten; on the contrary, though pensive and delicate, I thought her's a very sweet person." "My dear Mary, how could I for a moment forget