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Rh sent me a little bill by the Count. I was in a dreadful shabby state before I got it. Indeed my bonnet is so now." "You may take mine; I mean the white chip I got at Brighton, for I must have a proper winter bonnet, and as you say I must go out and get rid of the weakness that hangs about me." Georgiana brought home a check for the hundred and fifty pounds, receiving at the same time an earnest exhortation to persuade mamma to pay Mr. Palmer, on the fifteenth, from Mr. and Mrs. Penrhyn. On repeating the why and wherefore, as they had given it, she was gravely assured that there was no occasion to attend to their advice or their reason whatever. "In all cases where people lend money," said Lady Anne, "they consider themselves entitled to talk of the necessity of being exact in repayment and prudent in expenditure, and all that kind of thing; they feel their own right to be disagreeable, and very few omit it—therefore, when one can do it, it is better to beg than to borrow, for a giver (they are few in number, unfortunately) generally lays down the cash without comment. Poor Riccardini, I must say, gave me three hundred pounds, at Brighton, in the most handsome manner possible; generally speaking, no people give the contents of their purse so freely as sailors." Georgiana had been what they call, in Yorkshire,