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The day following, Lady Anne, restored to a proper system, experienced great relief, and was enabled to dictate various notes to Georgiana, which were pretty generally preluded with such words as "Lady Anne Granard" (who has lately been troubled with a severe cold), or, in some cases, it was "a slight cold," but always meant an apology for a short notice, as it fixed the invitation for eight days afterwards. At the time these notes were dispatched, it appeared to her neighbours an act of madness, and it was to her daughters one of bitter sorrow; but, for several successive days, as she was careful in observing the strictest regimen (and they took care that the temperature of her rooms was precisely that which suited her), she actually became much better, especially as to these favourable circumstances was added great calmness of temper, she wisely substituting the quiet sneer of contempt for angry vituperation and vindictive scorn. The third day after Sir Edward and his sister