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304 broken under the affliction such a disgraceful proceeding exhibited, but having no idea that her mamma was capable of such conduct, it could not enter a mind so pure and so uncontaminated by the world; and, happily, Lady Anne was incapable of fulfilling her own purpose, and of displaying herself, at once, as the scandalizer of the order she was proud of, and the mother who could injure and disgrace so admirable a family of daughters.