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So soon as Lady Anne was pronounced convalescent by the medical men, she insisted on discharging "that odious woman," the nurse, told Louisa to go home, as she was spending her husband's money very uselessly in staying there, when there was nobody in the place, and desired that Fanchette might be told "that no possible harm could arise to her from coming up to her lady, and trying to make her look less horrible." Mrs. Penrhyn was by no means sorry to be discharged, for she earnestly desired to be at home, and knew that her husband exceedingly regretted her absence, and she had long deplored her inability to do her sister the service she desired. As, therefore, she immediately determined to set out the following day, she thought it right to give her the substance of Georgiana's letters, by telling her "how deeply her uncle, Lord Rotheles, had been affected by her late perilous situation, so that his own state became alarming, but she was most happy to say it had now subsided into a regular fit of the gout." She added "that Georgiana was his constant attendant, and a