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Rh "On the contrary, I left her daughters in Italy, perfectly well, only seventeen days since, and she told me herself Helen was well, save indisposed by labouring too much for this fair. Georgiana may have some ache of the heart, perhaps, but not of the health." "Then the heat alone caused her faintness?" "Yes, the heat, of which there is so littel here, nobody received it well; besides, the room is in very bad state, full of malaria. Lady Anne is not so young as she was, like myself, and cannot go through the fatigue as she wont." "It is a dreadful fatigue; I have seen several ladies leave the room within the last hour. It was a very pretty spectacle in the morning, but you were late." "I did leave Dieppe at four this morning only, and was in fortune to see it at all. To me it is spectacle melancholique, to see the ancient nobility train up their children, even their females to the trades; it is prudent, certainly, to prepare them for the misfortune, but yet it is melancholique." "My good sir, you mistake; the ladies you have seen undertake all this trouble for the sake of charity. This is in aid of the dispensary." "You are young, my lord; I hope you will escape that which I have seen, but I must question that you will, when I witness such preparation for revolutions as the scene of this day supplies. Depend on it, this is the mode taken to teach the young how they will