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When Lady Allerton discovered her sister Glentworth, though Georgiana and Mrs. Penrhyn were singing duets very charmingly, and Isabella felt their voices at her heart's core, and certainly preferred them to all she had heard in the land of song, (where, by the by, there is as much that is bad as in other countries) she was yet earnestly engaged in conversation with a lady, who had come in not long before, and communicated the information, that, in consequence of the unexpected death of a certain nobleman, a member for a great manufacturing town would be sent into the upper house, and, of course, his seat be vacated. Had Isabella possessed two pairs of ears, wherewith to listen, and two tongues with which to inquire, she certainly could have given them all full employment. Her sister was astonished, not less at the object of her anxiety, than her adherence to it, for it was evident that the observations and assurances of various experienced ladies, who, having