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Lady Anne's page led the way to the duke's house; Lady Anne herself followed, explaining the business. The duchess soon had the case unpacked, the inner boxes drawn forth, and the whole contents taken out piece by piece, in the breakfast parlour. "Oh! what sweet, sweet things!" cried Lady Ginevra. "Did you ever see such loves?" exclaimed her younger sister. "Here are velvet reticules—real velvet (eighteen shillings a yard), trimmed so beautifully! and purses, with bead work, and bead bracelets; and there are babies' robes, with lace let in at the tucks; I never saw any thing so pretty. Look, what droll pincushions! all kinds of devices perfectly new" she continued; "what genius they must have had that invented them! and lace cuffs—the prettiest things—so advantageous to the hand. I wish I might buy a pair of these, your grace; they would be so very becoming when one puts out one's hand Do just look at the way in which they sit." "Surely, Lady Ginevra, you will do my daughters the honour to accept any little matter you see