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294 cook as an able successor to the one at the hotel (with a quality the latter by no means boasted), her spirits were raised, and she was much more cheerful and amiable than Helen had seen her since the time of their re-union. A week afterwards, Georgiana, so long deemed the queen of flannels and soft palms, left the home she loved for the one she dreaded, but was perfectly willing to encounter, being indeed anxious to see her mother, and shew her every dutiful attention. On leaving Lord Rotheles, "some natural tears she dropt;" and they did not fall alone, for he was exceedingly moved; but Lord Meersbrook sustained him, and was, in the opinion of Lady Rotheles, quite a godsend, though she did not propitiate him so much as she intended, when she expatiated warmly on the superiority of Georgiana to all the rest of her nieces, though she owned "that she knew but little of Helen, who would return with the servant who accompanied her sister."