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176 were answered, and her requests every where attended to, either from a naturally kind disposition inclined to forget and forgive, from the abiding love inspired by her husband, and the pity felt for his fair children, or certain recollections she had adroitly called up of "the handsome youth who danced with your daughter when a bride," or "the beloved protégé of my lamented Granard, whom you taught to shoot;" there was an universal predilection excited in Glentworth's behalf, and offers of houses made on every side, with all the hospitality habitual to the West Riding, which we need not say comprises the finest tracts of beautiful, picturesque, and fertile country on the island, enriched by castles and mansions inhabited by the noble, the ancient, the wealthy, and the good. "Surely," said Isabella to Lord Allerton, "you will permit my sister to accompany me to Granard Park! I have been so used to look to her for advice and comfort of every description, that on this momentous occasion I should be lost without her; and it is natural to suppose we should like to see the old place together, especially her, who knows it so much better than I do." "It would be a difficult matter for me to refuse my Mary any thing she wished, for, indeed, I fully intended to swell the pomp of my friend Glentworth's train, and I have still another motive for