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184 would see it on Georgiana and not on herself!—Poor Helen! she was indeed like her save in so far as Georgiana was concerned; and although it was a great loss to part with her, yet she well knew, that notwithstanding her deep solicitude for Arthur, she would not forget her sister, but would carefully examine every circumstance on which an opinion might be founded, or a hope indulged. So far as regards Lady Anne, she had that of receiving, every evening, the Penrhyns for an hour. Charles, as might be expected, meant to be present at the election of his kind patron-brother, but he could not spare time to go so far until the polling began. When Mrs. Glentworth stopped for a moment, to bid her mamma farewell, she presented her husband's adieu in the shape of two hundred pound bills, which Lady Anne thought particularly acceptable; and in return for which, she poured clear but rapid instructions into the ears of his wife, as to disposing of certain moneys, always understood to be required at elections. "Why should a poor man be deprived of the alms a rich man desires to give him, because he happens to have a vote?" said Lady Anne; "or,