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Mr. Glentworth was a man of too much genuine feeling not to pity the sufferings of his young wife, which became so much increased by the heat of Marseilles that her sister was seriously alarmed, thinking that a frame so attenuated as hers must sink under its influence, and he, therefore, hastily arranged his affairs, and they removed to Civita Vecchia. Their little voyage was beneficial, in the greatest degree, to Isabella; therefore they soon renewed it as far as Leghorn, from whence they went to Pisa, not choosing to leave the sea at a great distance, as it appeared to be the best friend of the invalid. Here it was certain she rapidly recovered her lost strength, and recruited her wasted form; and here she received the letters of her beloved family, relating many circumstances well known to our readers, but new to the travellers, the tidings having far to go. They were delighted with the idea of their mamma having forgiven Louisa, but sorry, she thought, such a public proof of her pardon necessary as that of giving a party; for the sisters well knew how great an embargo it would lay on the purses of Helen and Georgiana;