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Rh and it was matter of astonishment, not less than sorrow, that any one so reduced should be capable of her present exertion. True, she was dressed à merveille at once richly and becomingly. The face was comparatively little altered, but never had it been so lighted up with smiles as now, when the name of her lady daughter so often met her ear, accompanied by kind wishes, in this case not always words of course; for many persons had known Mary of old, and pitied her sincerely, and scarcely any had failed to feel indignant on her lord's behalf, therefore their union was agreeable to every one's sense of justice. At length Mary saw her old mamma again as she cast her eyes around, and perceived Helen enter the room, unaccompanied by Georgiana and Isabella. "Where are your sisters? what are they about? Tell Isabella to come this moment; she can't make herself fit to be seen, one doesn't expect that of her." "Mrs. Glentworth can't be hurried," said her husband, proudly; "indeed I must speak to her before she sees her mamma." "I'm afraid you spoil her," said Lady Anne, suddenly returning to the gracious in her manners: "you make her a petted wife." "Indulge her I may, spoil her I cannot," he replied, elbowing his way to the door, where Isabella