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A daylight view of their much altered mother was undoubtedly a very painful thing to our travellers from the Continent; but Lady Anne was refreshed when they saw her, and, being dressed and laid on a couch, was seen to greater advantage than when in bed; and, on her old system of keeping up appearances, she still managed to be agreeable-looking. Lord Allerton was busy giving orders for the renovation of his house in Cavendish Square; where he contented himself with the reports his lady might bring; but Glentworth accompanied the sisters, though himself busied with hunting in the first place a ready-furnished house. In truth, he wanted to present little Frank to his grandmamma, for he feared lest the child might be alarmed, and thought his presence would impose silence. But Frank behaved with all due decorum, clapped his hands at the word of command, pronounced his two words, and shewed his four teeth to admiration, and was declared by his grandmamma to be